The important of Empathy

According to experts, who research human behavior, empathy is an innate ability of each person. The first empathy is often shown throughout childhood. For example, when one infant cries, another infant's natural reaction is to cry along, it shows that they are sympathetic for each other.

Over time, our empathy levels will also increase. The development of empathy is directly influenced by the following factors:

• Childhood experiences: These experiences are mainly related to the education of parents' children. Besides, it is also related to the pain, the loss, which is considered the most influential in the development of empathy.

• Environment and culture: The environment in which we live and the culture we have access to also affect our empathy, causing each of us to see problems in different directions.

• Empathy Model of Behavior: This is often formed from what we see in our parent's behavior.

Benefits of empathy:

• Empathy encourages people to do charity work and take courageous actions: People with a high level of empathy tend to help others without being afraid of difficulties.

• Empathy limits negative feelings towards others: Forms of discrimination/racism or other prejudice are reduced when we have empathy for other cultures. Similarly, the state of bullying will also be reduced if the strong have more empathy for the weak.

• Empathy promotes equality: People will act in the spirit of fairness when there is empathy. The fight for equality often comes from empathy and the desire to reach out to the less fortunate in society.

• Empathy improves relationships at work: Workplace empathy helps create a more harmonious and peaceful working environment, while also improving employee productivity.

In conclusion, to build good relationships, we should show empathy at the needed time, and let our mind be “mindfulness” to learn how to empathize and understand more.