Dan Pink will be joining us for our February 7th LiveBlog:
Dan is the author of two influential business books, A Whole New Mind and Free Agent Nation. Dan held his last real job in the White House, where he served from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice President Al Gore. He's also worked as an aide to U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich, an economic policy staffer in the U.S. Senate, a legal researcher in India, and a latrine builder in Botswana. Dan lives in Washington, D.C.
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«Oldest ‹Older 201 – 223 of 223Mr. Pink,
How do you apply the six senses in your book to your life and job? Also how did you come up with the six senses?
Jason,
Do you think that actors after they become famous can lose their empathy?
I totally think that actors are empathizers because isn't that what they're payed for, putting themselves in anothers shoes.
I agree with Jacque that empathy and understanding go hand in hand but they are two different things.
I was wondering about the connection (if one exists) empathy has with socail or mental illneses such as depression, OCD, dyslexia, mental unstability, Ausbergers ADHD, etc.
@alex
They have to if they want to get the role. If they do not feel with the charicter, they would go in with no emotion and be unable to get the same tone and quality of acting as someone who empathizes with the role.
This is Helen
To play a role effectively and convincingly an actor needs to be able to empathize, the whole point in acting is creating a believable but fictional situation.
Alexm
I don't think that actors are always good empathizers they are just able to express emotions very well.
Jaque
I do not see how you can say that feeling what another is feeling would not allow you to understand how they feel. What you are saying is not making sense to me. I would like you to elaborate on that, or agree with me that empathy is a form of understanding or "knowing" what they are going through, or feeling.
The inner circle is talking about dyslexia in actors. It is interesting that you would say that when the Drama teacher at Arapahoe is dyslexic.
This is Holly
Tasha, I think in order to have a relationship, you need to be empathatic toward the person that you are having the relationship with.
Alex,
In many ways, yes. But some actors/singers like Jay-Z stay in tune with the real world. An example is how Jay-Z took a 5 month trip down to Africa in order to build fresh water wells for small towns. This showed people how some famous people can really bend down and act as a "normal" person.
Empathy is diffrent for everyone, can we really give emotions a general discription when it varys so much from person to person?
Delaney
That is really interesting. So there probably is a connection between acting and dslexia.
To comment on the whole actors as empathizers thing, how do you think actors can cry on screen if they aren't empathetic to the situation of the character they are playing?
When an actor is given a role they put themselves into that characters shoes so they can portray their characters emotions. In many situation the actor has experinced many things their character has and that helps the actor portray their character.
What's the point of a suspense movie? They generate emotion. How? - They do because of the actors. The actors display empathetic characteristics, thus drawing the audience in through connections.
I don't think that empathy at all relates to the difference in tasks of the left brain versus the right brain. I think it has to do with your feelings and connections to others, not the way a person's different hemispheres of their brain works. Any thoughts?
As unusual as this may sound, I totally agree with Jaque. I consider empathy to not be, in itself, understanding but simply the attempt at understanding that begins with sympathy- the feeling of pity for another.
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matta-
As I have previously said, empathy and understanding do go hand and hand the same way that emotion and empathy do. If you empathize with someone, you are both experienceing and understanding their feelings. It is experienceing their feelings that sometimes gets in the way. I have a few examples from my own life if you must know. I remember once a friend came to me crying and angry because someone had offended her. I immediately empathized with her and became enraged and indignant myself, and went on to confront that person. It turns out that the person had made a comment that wasn't really even offensive and I had acted on my emotions rather than my better judgement. I had basically made a fool of myself because I had acted on my immediate emotions. I have also been in that "medical emergency" situation several times, and when I remained detached and unemotional i was able to actually help the person in trouble.
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It turned out that the girl I was "empathizing" with hated the alleged perpatrator and wanted to hurt her. My emotions got the best of me, leading to an inability to assess the entire situation before acting on them. AS a result, I lost my real friend (the girl I had confronted on charges which turned out to be false).
Looking back, the entire scenario was just petty drama. But it did help me understand the importance of remaining in total and complete control of one's emotions and empathy at all times. There is a time to empathize, and that time is after you have assessed a situation in a clear-headed and sensible fashion.
Empathy is a defining characteristic of humanity as a whole. It is an ability only we possess and is extremely useful in real life. Every person can work to continue to develop this important sense, but I have a hard time seeing how this is really relevant in most careers. It is of course essential in the medical field, but do most professionals really use it that often.
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