Happy New Year!!! We're ushering in 2020 with our first guest of the season, Michael Ventura, founder of design agency Sub Rosa, Corvus Medicine Practitioner, and author of the book, “Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership”.

Empathy, is perhaps in its truest form, the separation of one’s ego, to the best of our ability, in relating to that of our neighbor. It was Alfred Adler (1870 - 1937), Austrian Psychotherapist and founder of The School of Individual Psychology who, in the simplest of terms, gave me my earliest understanding of the concept,

“Seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another, and feeling with the heart of another.”

Through the toil and discomfort of being in the human skin, many of us come to realize and understand the children we are, therefore the child, essentially, sitting across from us; whether that be the middle-aged man in a boardroom, our own partner, or the youth still defined by the body of one.

A cognizance of oneself optimizes our capacity to connect with one another; a relearning of one of the many languages we seem to have lost along the way. I won’t say we’ve cracked the code, but to be practiced in empathy makes for an invaluable asset both in career and personal affairs. Michael’s track record only serving as a further reflection of this, with the likes of Google, Nike, and The Obama Administration amongst his agency’s clientele.

And yet, perhaps more importantly, it may be that we’re coming to see our neighbor for the very first time.

This is Ep 32 Conversations Had In Public with Michael Ventura.

You can find Michael and his book at:

https://www.appliedempathy.com/

https://wearesubrosa.com/

http://www.corvusmedicine.com/

https://www.instagram.com/themichaelventura/

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