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Compassion

January 15, 2008

Don't walk by

A great talk over on TED by Daniel Goleman talking about Compassion.

Reverse Therapy owes a lot to Daniel's work on Emotional Intelligence and he is well worth listening to.

In this talk he describes how all human beings are gifted with compassion but we stop using it when we lose our focus. Instead of listening to emotions we go into an absent-minded state called 'the urban trance'.

Along the way are some good jokes and a fascinating anecdote about a psychopath known as the Santa Cruz Strangler