How to Develop Your Empathetic Skills

  Imagine that you’re having a conversation with someone who’s important to you. Now, try to answer two questions. Firstly, are you capable of thinking how they’re thinking? Secondly, can you feel the emotions they’re experiencing as if they were your own? If the answer to these two questions isn’t a resounding yes, this article will probably be extremely useful to you. In fact, you may well need to develop your empathetical skills. Broadly speaking, there are two types of empathy. Firstly, there’s cognitive empathy. This involves putting yourself in the other’s place. For example, answering questions such as: what…