{"id":62517,"date":"2015-08-24T12:00:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=62517"},"modified":"2015-09-07T20:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-07T19:43:34","slug":"the-difference-between-empathy-and-sympathy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/08\/the-difference-between-empathy-and-sympathy\/","title":{"rendered":"The Difference between Empathy and Sympathy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is the best way to ease someone&#8217;s pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Bren\u00e9 Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dr Bren\u00e9 Brown is a research professor and best-selling author of <\/em>Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead <em>(Penguin Portfolio, 2013). She has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Watch Dr Bren\u00e9 Brown&#8217;s full talk <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2015\/09\/the-power-of-vulnerability\/\" >&#8216;The Power of Vulnerability&#8217; HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1Evwgu369Jw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the best way to ease someone&#8217;s pain and suffering? In this beautifully animated RSA Short, Dr Bren\u00e9 Brown reminds us that we can only create a genuine empathic connection if we are brave enough to really get in touch with our own fragilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}