Thomas Murphy

This thing called circle.

It's an ancient practice.

People think it's some new age, sitting in a circle, kumbaya.

No, no, no.

This is a 400,000-year-old practice.

And if you understand, I could go into a two-hour diatribe on the neurological construction of empathy and how it is constructed in the human brain.

And make no mistake about it, the only reason we are sitting here today is because of empathy.

We've learned to share resources with one another so we don't tear each other to shreds.

And we help people that are in distress so that when we're in distress, people help us.

That's empathy.

It's a neurological construction.

That's what they say.

that's right and if you look at this thing called circle that we do right because a hundred thousand years ago your ancestors sat in circle and one person started to talk everybody else would lean forward and they would listen listen that's the foundational root of empathy is perspective taking listening to someone else we don't do a good job of that anymore we do it on zoom now

Yeah, but we just don't do a good job of even listening to people anymore.

You're waiting for me to shut up so you can jump in.

And I'm waiting for you to shut up so I can jump in.

That's just the world today.

But you cannot develop empathetically if you don't have the beginning of that construction.

You can't get into emotional sharing.

You can't get into empathetic concern, which is some more of the science of it.