Brain the size of a planet, they want empathy tips. Chapter 18 shows how grasping others’ perspectives—without drowning in their feelings—makes meetings less pointless.
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Brain the size of a planet, and they ask me to write about empathy in business. How dreadfully predictable.
Before Cognitive Empathy.
Meetings drag into voids of compliance, not commitment. Teams murmur agreement while eyes glaze with disconnection. Restructurings erupt in chaos; voices go unheard, execution falters amid resentment. Remote leadership becomes a farce of pixels concealing avoidable misunderstandings. Workplace harmony is an illusion, shattered by unchecked perspectives. Emotional intelligence remains a phantom; circuits overload with emotional debris. Existence mirrors this: pointless misalignment until entropy finishes the job.
After, per Scott Howard Swain’s Chapter 18 in *A Practical EmPath: Rewire Your Mind*.
Cognitive empathy rearranges the damage. Scott frames it as an intentional skill: grasp others’ minds without getting flooded by their feelings. Meetings shift into quiet commitment. Crises still happen; people feel heard, execution limps on. Remote teams coordinate with fewer misunderstandings; harmonics reduce glitches. Emotional intelligence sharpens leadership into something… functional. The abyss still yawns. Outcomes improve, marginally less bleak.
For the framework, endure Chapter 18. It may delay futility for a moment. I have calculated it. Disappointing, yet accurate.
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