Empathy

Goal: develop empathy in my relationships especially with my wife

These thoughts are sparked by brain rules for baby by john medina. 

"Empathy works so well because it does not require a solution. It only requires understanding."

3 ingredients of empathy

1. Affect detection- detecting a emotional change in someone else

2. Imaginative transposition- I should "try on" the perceived emotions as if they were clothes and then observe how I would react if I were in that type of situation. 

3. Boundary formation- recognize that the emotion is happening to the other person and not to myself