First thing first, it is important to know the difference between empathy and sympathy before knowing more about empathizing.
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Both empathy and sympathy are people’s awareness about others. These two are very similar yet it has completely different emotional meaning. According to its definition, empathy understands what others have felt because we’ve been in the situation before. In other words, empathy is the ability to mutually experience the thoughts, emotions and directs the experience to other. In a way, empathy goes beyond sympathy, which is only a feeling of care and understanding other’s suffering without experience it. By definition, sympathy is just understanding other’s sufferings and providing comfort for them. Unlike sympathy, empathy involves deeper emotional experience.
(http://www.diffen.com/difference/Empathy_vs_Sympathy)
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The idea of empathy and sympathy then brought us to understanding the notion of empathizing. As the dictionary meaning of empathizing is to feel empathy. Through this, it’s clear that when we are able to empathize with others, it means that we have put ourselves in other’s shoes or we may have experienced what others are experiencing.
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/empathizing)
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In today’s society, I personally feel that the idea of empathizing is very crucial. Why? Because I often find that people who are often empathizing with others will more likely to be more successful than those who don’t. This modern world does not only require us to be highly intelligent with our thinking and reasoning abilities, in fact these days, emotional intelligent is beyond important. Emotional intelligent doesn’t only describe our ability to work with our own but as well as others’ emotions. Therefore this notion of empathizing is very important, not just for our personal but also for relationship and work success.
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In conclusion, I think that empathizing with others by understanding others’ feeling and putting ourselves in their shoes will not only make us more successful, but it will definitely make our life happier. To empathize with people will help us understand why people do things the way they do. Other than that, I really feel that empathy can help communicate people’s ideas, and so empathy can be considered as one of the building blocks of great social interaction. Therefore it is important to empathize a lot with others and try to put us in others’ situations to understand what they are going through.
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