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A moment in their shoes

Posted on by philipdodson

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Before we jump to blame others or wait for them to be different, stop and understand them.

Empathy is a thing that is so missing from our culture. We are taught to bury emotions, be tough, soldier on. Therefore, we only extend sympathy at best to others. Most often we judge, blame, or get angry or irritated with other people.

A moment spent appreciating the other person’s environment, experiences, and position is one of the most valuable moments we can spend. It stops criticism, judgement, and knee-jerk reactions. Reduces irritation, anger, and hate.

It’s amazing to be able to truly understand others, to realise that they are only trying to do their best. That does not mean we accept everything that others do, but even if their actions are wrong, we are better placed when we understand and empathise.

Walk a moment in their shoes, feel for them, appreciate their situation, before doing anything.

The world needs your ideas to be created

Posted on by philipdodson

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We have a world full of billions of people, each person’s head is full of so many of ideas. The numbers are difficult to compute of how many ideas are being created every moment of every single day across the entire human race.

An idea is great, but it is a billion times better if it is shared. The act of sharing an idea is the act of creating something, as you have transferred it from just your head to others. By doing that alone you have created an opportunity perhaps just to inspire another person to act or to inspire yourself to act. Then who knows what gets created from that.

So many people have gone to their graves with all those ideas they never shared, never created, never gave us the other humans a chance to be inspired by, a chance to take action.

The world needs your ideas to be created, we all owe the human race our ideas.

Even if it only impacts just one person, it was worth it. That is what being human is about, sharing with others.