Put yourself in their shoes

It is important to remain respectful when you do not share the same views as your classmates. Attempt to at least try to see things from another perspective. 

One exercise you can to do to practice this in the classroom is kinesthetic mirroring. By mirroring what another person i...

Imagining stories activates the particular regions inside our minds that facilitate better understanding of others and seeing our surroundings with a new perspective, equivalent to putting oneself in someone else's shoes.

When we read about a situation and how someone else...

When we perceive something, we interpret it based on what we already know.

We believe that everybody else, including people who don’t posses what we know, would see the situation similarly that we do.

This is a common cause of communication problem.

We need to put ourselves in e...