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Review - Week 14


I loved this picture, and wish I had seen it sooner! It's got so many awesome character ideas that I never would have even thought of. Definitely saving it for future creative writing endeavors.

For my video, I watched Brene Brown's video about Empathy. 
I really liked what she had to say, because although I knew that empathy and sympathy are vastly different and have different effects, I did not know that sympathy actually causes a disconnection. I had always thought of it as just having less of a connection than empathy. She said there are four elements: 
1. Perspective taking - seeing something from their perspective
2. Staying out of judgement - making sure you don't pass any judgement onto the person
3. Recognizing emotion in other people - you're not the only one who feels things
4. Communicating - letting them know that you know they're going through something, and you're there to listen.

It stuck out to me that the point of every conversation is NOT to make things better. Conversations are a means of connection, not always problem solving. The great thing is that they are often vehicles of problem solving, but they don't have to be, and sometimes it's just good to be there for someone and make yourself vulnerable enough to feel something that someone else is feeling. 
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