The document discusses the differences between sympathy and empathy. Empathy involves understanding another person's perspective without sharing their feelings, while sympathy means feeling what another person feels about their situation. The document argues that empathy is generally better than sympathy when someone is going through a difficult time, as they do not need you to experience their problem directly but rather just need you to understand their perspective.

1. Sympathy vs. Empathy
Yongki Park
Wednesday, November 16,

2. What’s the difference?
Wednesday, November 16,

3. Empathy
the act of understanding, being aware of,
being sensitive to the feelings, thoughts, and
experience of another of either the past or
present without having the feelings
Wednesday, November 16,

4. Sympathy
the act or capacity of entering into or
sharing the feelings or interests of another
Wednesday, November 16,

5. Which is better?
Wednesday, November 16,

6. Empathy
is just this: noticing and understanding
someone else’s experience, or situation, or
perspective. Empathy does not mean you
agree, or share the feeling, or see it their
way. It only means you get it, you get how
they see their problem.
Wednesday, November 16,

7. Empathy
If someone you know is going through a hard
time, you might be relieved to hear that all
they really need from you is empathy. They
don’t need you to feel their pain, and they
certainly don’t need you to solve their
problem (even if they ask you to!). It really
helps for you to say, “I can see how hard this
is for you. I can see why it’s so upsetting.”
Wednesday, November 16,

8. Empathy is feeling what
somebody else feels
through them.
Wednesday, November 16,

9. Sympathy
Sympathy is not just understanding another
person’s perspective. It is also feeling the
same way the other person feels about their
problem.
Wednesday, November 16,

10. Sympathy
if you know someone who’s going through a
hard time - They don’t really need your
sympathy. They don’t need you to experience
their loss the way they are experiencing it.
They just need your empathy.
Wednesday, November 16,

11. Sympathy is feeling
what somebody else
feels through you.
Wednesday, November 16,

12. So,
Sympathy or Empathy
Wednesday, November 16,