The Hidden Reason Your Workplace Lacks Empathy—And How to Fix It #shorts

Tying back to your question about the socioeconomic status, there was a study that looked at social outgroups. This particular group looked at homeless users. And what was so disturbing about this, Ashish, is not only did the empathy centers in the brain not engage, but the pattern that fired was the same as disgust. Literally the brain seeing someone is less than human.

That's problematic. It is massive. Right? And I think friends, this is really insightful part around this work. If you've read the book of Joy by the Dalai Lama, he talks about exactly the same thing, which is we are all wired for compassion, but we are all wired for compassion differently. And our empathy and compassion circuits really fire when it is somebody like us. If they're not, if it's not us, it's them, yes, we can then still take an act which is of compassion, but it's through a choice. Hence the need and importance to cultivate ways in which we can break through, through that fundamental rewiring that fundamental hurdle. And that's the work why this is so important.