What is Empathy?

• Toxic leadership is the main reason why employees leave their jobs. In order to become truly exceptional, those in charge must practice empathetic leadership.
• Empathy is the ability to feel what another person is feeling. It is the ability to put yourself in the other person’s shoe...

Empathy is the ability to share another person's emotions after having reached a good understanding of their suffering. There are three main types of empathy:

• Cognitive empathy, which is defined as the ability to understand and to share someone else'...

Empathy is the abillity to emotionally understand what other people feel. see things from their point of view, and imagine yourself in their place. 

essentially, it is putting yourself in someone else's position and feeling what they must be feeling.