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Tough Compassion and The Storytelling Approach
Studies show that story-based approaches can create significant change in people's world views.
With storytelling, you can take a firm stance and describe to the other person that the results of their actions have a huge impact to other people without launching a direct attack onto them.
Even when it seems easier to just let the other person be wrong, being able to what may seem to be fraternizing with the enemy can actually be a potent way to guide someone towards a less toxic path.
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Dalai Lama on Tough Compassion
Dalai Lama believes that tough compassion involves speaking up, without rancor but with conviction, if the goal is to promote less suffering for all.
In committing to tough compassion you register yourself into a certain kind of risk-benefit calculation where you accept th...
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Tough Compassion
The idea of tough compassion has been gaining traction because the pastel-colored version of it is proving to be unhelpful at the moment.
The idea has been described by psychologist Dacher Keltner who said that it is in line with the Buddhist tradition of stepping in to guide the person on...
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Tough Compassion in Practice
- Know if the other person is in a position where they are willing and able to engage in this kind of conversation with you.
- Make yourself accessible as a human being who can be vulnerable, who can be hurt, and who can appreciate the other person eve...
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Trying to control the problem—your boss, your spouse, or your circumstances—will only keep you more attached to it. The more you “leech” onto a problem, the more it “leeches” back on you.
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The good and the bad of the social learning
In times like the current one, when we are all facing a pandemic that forces us to stay locked in our own houses, without any face-to-face interaction with a person other than the ones we share our house with, social learning seems to be the solution to fight both fear and depression. By means of...
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