Empathy trumps logic

Written by Jim Chaput
After a 19-year career in financial services, Jim left a leadership position to focus on health and fitness. Jim is a Master Practitioner of Applied Movement Neurology and holds Certificates in Applied Functional Science and 3DMAPS from the Gray Institute. His passion is empowering people to help resolve the pain, tension and insomnia that prevents them from living well.

A rational argument probably won’t have much effect on someone who’s behaving irrationally. Judging them probably doesn’t help them or you either. Even more so than other times, empathy is the best course.

“First seek to understand, then be understood”
– Stephen Covey

When you find yourself judging, what can you do to understand instead?

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