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Our attempts at empathy are backfiring. Here’s what to try instead
- AnimalMuppet 5y ago> Bolz-Weber reminds us that our job is neither to hold all the pain of the world, nor to fix all its ills, and not even to perform all the empathy. It’s sufficient and sane to conclude, as she does, that “it’s OK to do what is YOURS to do. Say what’s yours to say. Care about what’s yours to care about.” When you're overloaded by the messes that the world is in, that's sanity-preserving. (It can be sanity-preserving at work, too.)