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Don't Waste A Good Crisis

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Support, Self Help, Motivational Speaker, Empathy, Honesty, Transformation, Mike Robbins, Authenticity, Healing, Surrender, Compassion, Problems, Happiness, Living News
Mike Robbins

Instead of just gutting it out or going into some form of creative denial, what if we embraced the crises in our lives and actually utilized them for the incredible growth opportunities that they are?

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Be Real Not Right

Mike Robbins | Posted 10.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Motivational Speaker, Empathy, Honesty, Righteousness, Mike Robbins, Self Help, Authenticity, Compassion, Living News
Mike Robbins

As I've learned and you've probably noticed as well, it's not only impossible to be right all the time, it's exhausting, stressful, and no fun (for us or others).

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The Big Do: Inspiring Amazing Things, One Lecture At A Time

Duke Stump | Posted 10.20.2009 | Impact

Read More: Individuals Making a Difference, Community, Change, Relationships, Empathy, Action, Paradigm Shift, Meaning, The Do Lectures, Impact News
Duke Stump

Our global issues need not be so daunting and we as individuals can make a difference. The key is to hold the conversations from a point of inspiration versus desperation.

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Breaking the Gender-Merit Link

Nancy Hopkins | Posted 09.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Empathy, Boston Globe, Ted Kennedy Senate Seat, Empathy, Merit Pay, Sonia Sotomayor, Steve Kornacki, Hillary Clinton, Yvonne Abraham, Massachusetts, Meritocracy, Ted Kennedy, Martha Coakley, Politics News
Nancy Hopkins

When someone suggests gender diversity as an asset of a job candidate, the reply is often "Oh no, I'm only interested in merit." Yet name some other quality needed for the position, and the idea of merit is assumed, not questioned.

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The Secret of Patient Care: Lessons From A Bathroom Wall

Dr. Larry Dossey | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living

Read More: Caring, Patient, Healing, Doctor, Empathy, Compassion, Health, Patient Care, Living News
Dr. Larry Dossey

When physicians express caring, empathy, and compassion, the duration and severity of illness are often reduced and the body's immune system is stimulated.

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Who Isn't John Galt? Part 2

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Human Rights, Bob Marley, Evil, Bubbles, Bill Gates, Architecture, Dick Cheney, Dollar, Greed, Empathy, John Lennon, Wall Street, Ayn Rand, Bible, Artists, Morality, The Fountainhead, Republicans, Alan Greenspan, Ethics, Atlas Shrugged, Capitalism, Republican Party, Jimi Hendrix, Politics News
Robbie Gennet

To those who posted about having to "share" their earnings with those who had "no hand in it at all": you are truly living in a fictitious reality.

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Who Isn't John Galt?

Robbie Gennet | Posted 09.26.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Empathy, Artists, Dick Cheney, Ayn Rand, Dollar, Ethics, Republican Party, Greed, Bob Marley, Bible, Architecture, Bill Gates, Capitalism, Evil, John Lennon, Human Rights, Wall Street, The Fountainhead, Alan Greenspan, Atlas Shrugged, Jimi Hendrix, Bubbles, Republicans, Entertainment News
Robbie Gennet

If you are an Artist, Rand's books free you from the opinions of others and put ironclad gates around your sense of purpose, unlocking the freedom to create your art.

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Obama's Second Hundred Days

Chris Weigant | Posted 09.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michael Jackson, Supreme Court, Latina, Sessions, Burris, Empathy, A Tale of Two Cities, Al Franken, Reform, Dickens, Sarah Palin, Second 100 Days, Muslim, Latino, Sotomayor, Health Care, Analog Television, Birthers, Age of Foolishness, Budget, Democrat, Congress, Sanford, Democrats, Barack Obama, Transparency, Rahm Emanuel, First Hundred Days, Health, Sonia Sotomayor, Credit Card, Souter, Healthcare, Senate, Polls, Mark Sanford, Cap and Trade, Gates, President Obama, Cia, Speech, Second Hundred Days, Jeff Sessions, David Souter, Flu, Obama, Democratic, Iraq, Media, Scotus, Republican, Bush, Pelosi, Television, Iran, Gay Rights, Nuclear Weapons, Baucus, Russia, Beer Summit, Arlen Specter, Credit Card Reform, House, Specter, Photo Op, Msm, Beer, Franken, Worst of Times, Charles Dickens, Roland Burris, Gay, Mainstream Media, Waterloo, Best of Times, First 100 Days, Torture Photos, Chris Weigant, Palin, Cairo, Max Baucus, Bipartisanship, Torture, Politics News
Chris Weigant

Our look back at Obama's second 100 days will begin with a short overview, and then move on to the categories: "the best of times," "the worst of times," and "the age of (media) foolishness."

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The Hardwiring of Human Empathy: How We Can Save One Child at a Time

Mallika Chopra | Posted 08.21.2009 | World

Read More: Community Service, Nicholas Kristof, Empathy, Service, Helping the Poor, World News
Mallika Chopra

If human empathy works best in one-to-one connections between the individual with resources and the individual in need, then we need to work harder than ever before to bring those one-to-one connections all over the world.

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Sotomayor and the Fundamentals of Diversity and Affirmative Action

Jim Wallis | Posted 08.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Justice Powell, Empathy, Perspective, Quota System, Justice Lewis Powell, Affirmative Action, America, Conservative, Image of God, Brian McLaren, Story of Creation, Justice, Constitution, Affirmative Action Policies, Hispanic, God, Tower of Babel, Confirmation Hearing, David Brooks, Hispanic Woman, Diversity, Race, Racism, Jonathan Sacks, Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Segregation, Regents of the University of California v Bakke, New York Times, Inequality, Creation, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Jim Wallis

In the story of creation in Genesis we see that the image of God is best reflected not through sameness, but through the breadth that exists within the grand diversity of creation.

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Robert S. McNamara, Sonia Sotomayor, and Empathy

Leslie Pratch, Ph.D. | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Integrity, Robert S. McNamara, Empathy, Sonia Sotomayor, Sotomayor Hearings, Iraq, Politics News
Leslie Pratch, Ph.D.

To manifest integrity in business means behaving with a clear set of values; those values balance self-interest and concern with interest in and concern for others.

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The JusticeBot 9000

Chris Weigant | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Court, Baseball, JusticeBot 9000, Empathy, Racist, Judge Sotomayor, States Rights, Scotus, Racial, Confirmation Hearings, Republican, Robot, Judge, Constitution, Chris Weigant, Farce, Satire, Balls and Strikes, Sonia Sotomayor, Some Splainin to Do, Spoof, Racism, Sotomayor, Confirmation, Umpire, Justice, Republican Party, Justicebot, Politics News
Chris Weigant

The JusticeBot 9000: You said you wanted a machine that took all the human factor out of the law, so that emotion and empathy would be forever banished from the bench.

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Persons With Empathy Need Not Apply

Judge H. Lee Sarokin | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sotomayor, Supreme Court Diversity, Senate Confirmation, Empathy, Politics News
Judge H. Lee Sarokin

Empathy is to be embraced, not condemned. Experience informs, but does not dictate, the outcome.

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What's Wrong With Empathy?

Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 08.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Cowboy Diplomacy, Judge Sotomayor, Dr. Benjamin, Ecomonic Crisis, Empathy, Pres.Bush 1&2, Pres.Obama, Frank Capra, Politics News
Joan E. Dowlin

I, for one, am glad for the end of former President George W. Bush's "cowboy diplomacy," fear mongering, and pre-emptive strikes talk.

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Sen. Grassley Admits To Different Standards For Alito And Sotomayor

Think Progress | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Senator Charles Grassley, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Alito, Empathy, Justice Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, Obama Supreme Court Nominee, Sotomayor Hearings, Constitution, Grassley, Politics News

During the opening day of confirmation hearings, Judge Sonia Sotomayor came under fire from Sen. Charles Grassley (R-IA) for stating that her experien...

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Balls, Strikes and Empathy

Chris Kelly | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Justice Frank Murphy, Sotomayor Confirmation, Empathy, Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Chris Kelly

They've got to give the balls and strikes thing a rest. Sotomayor's replacing David Souter, not Benito Santiago. Justice isn't a game and a Supreme Court Justice isn't an umpire.

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Justice for the Privileged

Robert Koehler | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama, Justice, Empathy, Guantanamo Detainees, Republicans, Sonia Sotomayor, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Gop, Republican Party, Politics News
Robert Koehler

The Republicans are aghast that Obama would impose an "empathy standard" on his nominee for the Supreme Court, as though this word could be removed from anything that is human.

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Gingrich Accuses Sotomayor of Faking Broken Ankle

Andy Borowitz | Posted 06.08.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Borowitz Report, Supreme Court, Andy Borowitz, Broken Ankle, Empathy, Newt Gingrich, Sonia Sotomayor, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

Mr. Gingrich said that if Ms. Sotomayor was counting on arousing the empathy of Republican senators by faking a broken ankle, she was "sorely mistaken."

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Are Women More Emotionally Intelligent Than Men?

Dan Goleman | Posted 07.05.2009 | Business

Read More: John Mayer, Leadership, Empathy, Peter Salovey, Emotional-Intelligence, Naomi Wolf, Emotional Intelligence, Paul Ekman, Business News
Dan Goleman

By the year 2018, the workplace will be one where the demand for "female" management skills will be far stronger than today.

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Minding The Heart Is Jurisprudent

Marilia Duffles | Posted 07.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Supreme Court, Brain Science, Obama, Empathy, Decision-Making, Moral Code, Living News
Marilia Duffles

We envision ourselves as logical thinkers, but we're really feeling beings. Moral code has been wired in our brain ever since we stopped walking on all fours.

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I Feel Your Pain, See Your "Empathy," and Raise You a Little EST

Phil Bronstein | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Empathy, Politics, Sonia Sotomayor, Est, Phil Bronstein, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Same-Sex Marriage, Politics News
Phil Bronstein

Caught up in his own empathy epidemic, Mr. Obama is now inviting evil Iran to US embassy Fourth of July celebrations overseas. Just check the firecracker load carefully.

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The Fight Against Empathy

Jonathan Tolins | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Empathy, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Suffering, Gay Marriage, Sam Harris, Politics News
Jonathan Tolins

The right has adopted a strong anti-empathy position and want Vulcan robots for judges who can't see or comprehend the human cost of their judgments.

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Jason Linkins

Empathy Cited As Important By Many Court Nominees (And Today's Scritti Politti)

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 06.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Video, Service Journalism, Empathy, Sandra Day O'Connor, Media Criticism, Dick Cheney, Sonia Sotomayor, Samuel Alito, Rappers, Clarence Thomas, Torture, Media News

Well, we can officially put this ridiculous argument over empathy to bed, because, as it turns out, our Supreme Court justices are so gosh-darned empa...

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Why the "Right Brain" Idea is Wrong-Headed

Joseph LeDoux | Posted 06.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Thought, Education, Intelligence, Emotion, Empathy, Reason, Brain, Split-Brain, Life Coaching, Intuition, Society, Business, Emotional Intelligence, Mind, Logic, Living News
Joseph LeDoux

Talking about the right brain as the way of the future is a step backwards to a time when intuitive impressions about the brain were all we had.

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Karl Rove Needs a Dictionary: Get Your Definition of Empathy Correct

Caroline Presno | Posted 06.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Karl Rove, Empathy, Sonia Sotomayor, Sonia Sotomayor Supreme Court, Barack Obama Sonia Sotomayor, Politics News
Caroline Presno

Empathy is an objective understanding of the subjective experience of another. In the process of empathizing, you're actually putting your ego aside in order to see what it is like to walk in another person's shoes.

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