New study on compassion for preventing emotional burnout:

Training people to be compassionate rather than empathic might help to solve problems such as depression, burnout and narcissism, according to Tania Singer at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences.

“People with a lot of empathy want to change that to compassion so they don’t get overwhelmed when confronted with suffering.” 

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