{"id":868,"date":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-06-08T02:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:29:14","slug":"empathy-mirror?","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/?p=868","title":{"rendered":"Empathy Mirror?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 102, 153);\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Empathy Mirror?<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Empathy is a prime competency for effective leadership. When people move up, but don&#8217;t know how to relate and communicate well, and thus appear insensitive, cold, and authoritarian, their careers often end badly, and their organization pays a great price in time, money, and morale.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">A strong feeling of (will)power can shut down someone&#8217;s mirroring system via a genetic on\/off mechanism in their DNA, or via a shift in the dominating <a href=\"?p=392\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">Identity<\/span><\/a>. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">The fact that powerful people mirror much less is consistent with studies that show that powerful people can be more superficial, because of different priority systems.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Their system is responding less to circumstances of others, thus they pay less attention to individual differences.  This may lead to stereotype or categorize people based on more superficial signals. Leaders often don&#8217;t see themselves as similar to their followers.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">People who activate their mirroring system more, score obviously higher in <a href=\"?p=263\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\">empathy<\/span><\/a>. The more similar or relevant someone is to you, the higher the empathy. Compassion training may make a huge difference in empathy responses.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Self control problems, such as overeating and overspending, can be the result of poor willpower or impaired ability to pre-commit to some agreement about something, or both. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">Voluntarily restricting one&#8217;s access to temptation can be more effective than pure willpower.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"?p=193\"><span style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 255);\"><span style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Verdana;\">read more &#8230;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Empathy Mirror? Empathy is a prime competency for effective leadership. When people move up, but don&#8217;t know how to relate and communicate well, and thus appear insensitive, cold, and authoritarian, their careers often end badly, and their organization pays a great price in time, money, and morale. A strong feeling of (will)power can shut down&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c2creset.ondigit.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}