# Empathy vs. Sympathy

Brené Brown on Empathy vs. Sympathy/Psychology Today

The little cartoon movie in the article puts it in a very very nice and understandable manner.

empathy fuels connection
sympathy drives disconnection

empathy:

  1. perspective taking
  2. staying out of judgement
  3. recognising emotion in other people, and
  4. communicating it
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