Simon Sinek

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The Curiosity Shop with Brené Brown and Adam Grant · The Highest Performance Strategy is Caring About People ft. Simon Sinek · 18 Jun 2026 podcast

Early 30s.

You're going to have a filing system internally for whether you're going to accept that is I made some decisions that disappointed a lot of people or I am a disappointment.

And that how do you change what you inherently are?

there's gotta be some kind of confounding variable of empathy in there too.

Because I mean, one of the things we teach kids around what you do can affect other people.

Like that's a really big part of how we teach empathy, which by the way, is the antidote to shame.

So if you put empathy in a Petri dish, I mean, if you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially, judgment, secrecy, and silence.

But if you put shame in a Petri dish and you douse it with empathy, you've created a hostile environment for shame.

Shame cannot survive empathy.

So that kind of connection and disappointment.

Here and then here.

So let me play back the question to make sure that I've got it right.

You are asking, what about someone who has a deep capacity for empathy, but also has kind of internal shaming messaging?

So empathy to a fault often stops being empathy.

So empathy to a fault almost becomes enmeshment and taking care of others.

And that's really quickly a very short walk to shame.

Does that make sense?

So I am no longer, Simon calls me, and so this is really, this is one of the things we talk, Adam and I talk about a lot because there's a big attack on empathy right now, especially in the US, which would make perfect sense politically.

I mean, it'd be easier to get away with the bullshit if no one cared for anybody else.

So I understand the attack on empathy personally, not speaking for my co-hosts.

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