Have you ever wondered why conversations with some people leave you feeling depleted while with others you feel liberated and uplifted? One explanation might be that with the former you felt noticed, heard, understood and accepted. With the former you might well have felt overlooked, misunderstood and judged-usually unfavourably. There can be many explanations for the phenomenon of feeling liberated or crushed by a conversation but one such goes to the heart of empathic intelligence.
Based ...