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Dr. Jeffrey Gladden argues that judgment is easy and empathy takes real courage. Understanding someone else's unique experience, rather than sorting them into categories, creates space for genuine connection.
Dr. Jeffrey Gladden argues that judgment is easy and empathy takes real courage. Understanding someone else's unique experience, rather than sorting them into categories, creates space for genuine connection.
People feel empowered by their ability to judge, whether it's from a religious perspective, a political perspective, a cultural perspective. They feel empowered by their ability to judge. And what I've realized is that judging is kind of the lowest common denominator of, of anything, right? Because anybody can judge, right? What I think takes more internal courage is to drop judgment and actually learn to become more empathetic, realizing that my experience is not your experience. I'm curious to know who you are, right? How does that work for you, right? And in that empathy, that's the place from which we can start to know and be known.
