3 Tips for Developing and Assessing Soft Skills: First, Take Off Your Emotional Armor. Let's make history…by recording it - StoryCorps & TED Prize. Self-Reported Empathy Dropped over Last 30 Years. Analysis of some 14,000 college student surveys over the last three decades finds that self-reported levels of empathy for others have decreased. Steve Mirsky reports As you get jostled in the daily rough and tumble, does it feel like other people care less about how rough you have it and how much you’re getting tumbled? Well, your suspicion may have some data to back it up. Because according to an article in Scientific American Mind magazine, analysis of surveys of college kids reveals that self-reported empathy has been dropping for the last 30 years. Nearly 14,000 student questionnaires that were completed in the last three decades were used for the study.
One possible explanation is social isolation—we tend to do more things on our own and engage in fewer group activities than we used to. —Steve Mirsky [The above text is an exact transcript of this podcast.] Brené Brown on Blame. Brené Brown on Blame. Brene Brown: The power of vulnerability. TEDxKC - Brené Brown - The Price of Invulnerability. Brené Brown: Listening to shame. Brené Brown: Why Your Critics Aren't The Ones Who Count.