Empathy (共情)，the ability to understand other people, has dropped sharply among college students over the past 10 years.Turn on the TV, and you're showed with news and reality shows full of people, fighting, competing, and generally treating one another with no respect. Human beings learn by example and most of the examples on TV are anything but empathetic.
Having relationships with other people is an important part of being human and having empathy is decisive to it. Researchers have also found that the empathetic teenagers are more likely to have high self-respect. Besides, empathy can be a cure for loneliness, sadness, anxiety and fear.
Many top companies report that empathy is one of the most important things they expect from new managers. Apparently, empathy is a kind of" emotional intelligence" that will help us achieve it.
Then, For starters, let down your guard and really listen to others. One doesn't develop empathy by having a lot of opinions and doing a lot of talking. To really develop empathy, you'd better volunteer at a nursing home or a hospital join a club or a team that has a diverse membership, have a " sharing circle" with your family, or spend time caring for pets at an animal shelter.
A. How can we take advantage of empathy?
B. Empathy is even an indication of a good leader.
C. What's the best way to improve empathy?
D. There are good reasons not to follow those bad examples.
E. Today, people spend more time alone rather than join clubs.
F. That might be because so many people have replaced face time with screen time.
G. Academics are vital but without emotional intelligence, you won't be successful in life.
