Empathy Vs Sympathy. By the end of this session you will know the difference between empathy and sympathy. Choosing empathy vs sympathy or complete disengagement is often more challenging in the short term but the long-term reward is much greater.
These are misguided statements. Rather than being empathetic these well. Sympathy is like having concern and pity for another persons problems and misfortunes.
In looking at the difference between sympathy and empathy you must first understand what they are.
And pathos referring to feelings or emotion is used when one person shares the feelings of another as when one experiences sadness when someone close is experiencing grief or lossEmpathy is a newer word also related to pathos. In some cases people experiencing empathy actually go beyond understanding anothers experience and can actually feel it. While some might read the slight differences in the definitions as just semantics there are important distinctions between the two words. More importantly these two words elicit different emotions and different responses.
