
Empathy / Compassion /Altruism
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Brene Brown: The Power Of Vulnerability
« N’attendez pas pour être un héros ! » – Mark Bezos « SWiTCH
Jeremy Rifkin - Empathie/prospective/énergie
We find it easier to empathise with people who are socially and emotionally close to us, of course we do. Research has even shown how the sight of a loved one in pain triggers a kind of simulation of their agony in the pain network of our own brain.
How feeling socially connected can make strangers' hearts beat together
i Rate This In the last few days, I came across a couple of unrelated quotations on human nature and our internal tug-of-war between cooperation and conflict.
On Optimism and ‘Human Nature’ « Patrick F. Clarkin, Ph.D.
“SuperCooperators” (written with Roger Highfield, editor of New Scientist magazine) is an absorbing, accessible book about the power of mathematics.

