I like the point Tim’s emphasises, that when, “you develop…deep connections with the people you serve, the ideas that you give them are more likely to spread. We are naturally empathic.”
Relationships with students and colleagues are important for a range of very human reasons. Increasingly neuroscience is revealing, what we already know, that we are softwired to belong.
‘Empathy is the invisible hand’ which allows us to civilise and develop.
When we observe someone else have a feeling, it spreads. We empathise. We imitate what we experience. This can be a positive or negative thing.
Listen closely to the last-minute of this video. The message, we need to rethink the human narrative and how that has led to the evolution of our institutions and ideas on parenting, education and potential.
We need to think as an extended family.
Your thoughts? How could our students and colleagues benefit from this thinking?