If people experience an evocative event many times, they may not become wiser companions but worse, unable to disentangle self-change from other-oriented thinking. Just as lacking exposure to others' experiences can create gaps in empathy and understanding, so may gaining too much.

Which quality was Whitman illustrating in his poem? Empathy. By becoming “the wounded person,” he vicariously experiences their suffering. Is it possible to completely understand how someone else feels?

Sympathy refers to the ability to take part in someone else’s feelings, mostly by feeling sorrowful about their misfortune. Sympathy can also be used in relation to opinions and taste, like when you say that you have sympathy for a political cause.

Empathy vs. Sympathy

Talking about happiness at work is different from talking than talking about performance, commitment or sick leave. People should feel free and safe to talk about happiness at work. And you can’t force people get involved with their happiness at work.

Happiness at work is also a concept where there is a consistent progressive correlation with productivity (the happier you are at work the more productive you are).

Dramatic shortages in hospitality: A recent American Hotel & Lodging Association survey found that 87% of hotels were still experiencing staff shortages, including 36% who considered the shortages "severe." Compared to other hotel workers, housekeeping teams have been hit hardest by these shortages.

Education is one of the most volatile industries—and also one of the unhappiest. The biggest spikes in employee happiness occur during the winter holidays and summer vacation, with substantial drops as the industry returns to the classroom. The industry's average eNPS has consistently hovered around 34 points.

The industry's average eNPS has dropped about 4 points each year since 2020.

“I wish I was doing something I love, but there are just too many bills to pay at the moment.

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being forced to stay on the job later in life to make ends meet.

For people claw-ing to maintain basic stability(instead of signaling that they’veattained a middle-class versionof it), the barriers to dog owner-ship are larger than simplyhaving the disposable incometo feed another mouth. A lotof subsidized and low-incomehousing refuses pets or limitsthe type and number that resi-dents can have, and homelessshelters generally require peopleto abandon their pets to get aplace to sleep. Companionship,whether with a pet or otherpeople, is elemental to humandignity; in America, it’s easierto come by if you have money.

know if you’re ready tokeep another mammal alive?

Coding style is more important than I expected in the beginning. My start to software engineering started from being on the product-minded end of the spectrum and moved towards the “technical-minded” side of the spectrum.

It’s the reason why when ChatGPT outputs some hogwash, it’s easier just to re-prompt it or write it from scratch yourself instead of trying to figure out the errors in its buggy code.

There’s a popular saying that debugging code is twice as hard as writing it.