EMPATHY VS SYMPATHY: HOW TO TRULY COMFORT SOMEONE

Gameology

When someone needs you the last thing you want to do is say the wrong thing. Sometimes sympathy is not appropriate and that is because sympathy is something we should reserve for the rare instances where we actually can relate. If something happens to someone and it hasn’t happened to you before, you want to use empathy and NOT sympathy. Here is how you do that!

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