Stephen Covey‘s concept of empathic listening involves many of the topics we’ve explored the past several weeks.
We began with Brene Brown’s insight that empathy is different from sympathy, in the 8th Habit, Stephen observes sympathy is often a form of judgment. People feed on sympathy. It makes them dependent.
Empathy, in contrast, involves both parties looking at the problem, issue, or feeling. We are on the same … continue reading