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Sep 4, 2012
"Compassion is to share the pain without sharing the suffering." --Shinzen Young
How To Respond to Failure
"Typically, when people fail, we blame them. Or teach them. Or try to make them feel better. But the learning -- the avoidance of future failures -- only comes once they feel okay about themselves after failing. And that feeling comes from empathy." In this article, a business advisor describes an interaction between a nine-year-old and her grandmother -- and the unexpected lesson in leadership and compassion he gleaned from it.
BE THE CHANGE
Simply listen and reflect back the next time you or somebody you know experiences a failure.
