Empathy

"There were some advantages to being a woman photographer. I think women have more
empathy with the subject." - Annie Leibovitz

"Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of
empathy, for lack of compassion." - Annie Lennox

1. How do you define empathy?

2. How well can you sense problems other people may be feeling?
3. Can empathy make people become better leaders?
4. How much empathy do you feel towards other people?
5. Do you think it is possible to be too empathetic? 
6. Why might it be bad/good for a doctor to have a lot of empathy?
7. In what other jobs is empathy very important?
8. Who is the most empathetic person you know?
9. In what jobs is empathy a bad thing to have?
10. Why do you think humans feel empathy? Do you think animals can feel
empathy?
11. Do you think that people are born with empathy or are they taught it?
12. If you see a homeless person on the street asking for money, what is the
first thing you think about them?
13. Are you good at knowing when something is wrong with a coworker or
family member?
14. What does the idiom “I feel your pain.” mean? Have you ever felt some
else’s pain?
15. Is having too much empathy a problem?
16. What jobs might need to have empathy? Why or why not?
17. What is the evolutionary purpose to empathy? Speculate.
18. Can animals empathise?
19. Is it possible to physically feel the pain of others?
20. Can empathy be taught/developed in people or does it simply come
naturally?