Simon Sinek

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5,256 appearances 15 recordings 11 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 18 Jun

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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

Empathy, there's two types of empathy.

And when you hear people attacking empathy, they use a type of empathy that is actually fairly detrimental.

And the types of empathy are cognitive empathy and affective empathy.

So cognitive empathy is you call me and you say, shit, do you have a minute?

I'm like, yeah, what's going on?

And you tell me something really hard and I'm like, oh God, what a shit show.

I'm so sorry that happened.

I'm unloading the dishwasher when you call.

I am not feeling what you're saying.

Affective empathy is taking on the feelings of another person.

I'm not like, if you are calling me with a sense of despair, I am not all of a sudden in my kitchen unloading the dishwasher, putting myself awash in despair so I can connect with you.

I am cognitively connecting to my understanding of what despair is, and I'm going to be there with you and for you, but I'm not taking on your emotion.

So that is cognitive empathy.

What leads to burnout and compassion fatigue is

affective empathy.

I'm going to feel what everyone's feeling.

So when you say really, you know, so it's affective empathy.

Then what happens is you call me, you're in despair.

I'm labeling that as an emotion because it's a hard one.

I take on your despair.

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