Our brains can trick us into thinking ill of ourselves. Self-compassion can squash those thoughts and lead the way to ...

In 1859, Charles Darwin unveiled a theory of Evolution that shook the scientific world: the survival of the fittest, where nature thrives on ruthless competition and efficiency. This dog-eat-dog ...

Commentary: The digitized life leaves no room for human error – or human compassion.

I’ve always paid close attention to the news. Indeed, I’ve come to understand my engagement with what the Washington Post’s Phil Graham called “the rough first draft of history” as a token of my ...

The 20th-century French philosopher Simone Weil once said that compassion was an impossibility. She said it is “a more astounding miracle than walking on water.” The word she used for meeting the ...

One of my first volunteer experiences as a retiree was to support the work of the International Rescue Committee (IRC). Founded at the behest of Albert Einstein, a rather famous refugee, the IRC is ...

Compassion is not empathy, though compassion depends upon empathy. Whereas empathy is the ability to take another’s perspective—cognitive and/or emotional—compassion is the motivation to alleviate ...

I had spent three hours on the computer trying to check in for my flight home to the United States. Again and again I went through the same prompts, but at a certain point in the process, the ...

Rohan D'Souza is currently Chief Product Officer of Olive AI — leading the charge on building the Internet of Healthcare. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic, burnout among healthcare workers was well ...

When laws are not supported by compassionate action there are those in the organisation who will hold on tenaciously to their positions because this is what validates them and gives them oxygen to ...

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