We Should Allow Sad Days, Not Just Sick Days
Adam M. Grant | Worklife Podcast | 38′
Adam M. Grant is a psychologist, author, professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania specializing in organizational psychology.
What you need to know …
Three myths
- Leaders and high performers are somehow immune to struggling with mental health.
- If you try hard enough, you can just turn off whatever’s going on in your life when you get to work.
- Many people believe that whatever their mental health challenges are, they don’t belong in the workplace.
Over 100 studies have shown that when we have low psychological well-being, or face depression or general anxiety, our job performance suffers.
Against Empathy: The Case For Rational Compassion
Paul Bloom | The Brainwaves Video Anthology | 4:47′
Paul Bloom is a psychologist, author, professor of psychology and cognitive science at Yale University.
What you need to know …
- Emotional empathy: Power to figure out what another person feels ..putting yourself in another person’s shoes.
- Cognitive empathy: Understanding what another person thinks or feels.
- Empathy traps:
- We tend to feel empathy for individuals not groups
- Empathy is biased
- Empathy can drain us
- Feeling another person’s pain can be overwhelming. We end up focusing on managing our own emotions.
- Rational compassion = listen, show concern, caring, makes you a better helper.
- Compassion is an organizational imperative to attracting and retaining talent people.