Empathy Definition

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Like many people who have pursued business careers before me, I am strong, resilient, highly ambitious and thoughtful about the risks I take. But what has, and I believe will continue to set me apart from the masses in business, is the characteristic that is the cornerstone of who I am: deep-rooted empathy. I have always absorbed feelings like they’re my very own and have a spot-on intuition I’ve long learned to trust above anything else. I once carried empathy as a weakness. Any strong emotions in the room, I would absorb. It made the first few years of my career draining with a lot of ups and downs. As I matured and digested advice from my mentors, I learned the power of boundaries, which helped me control the beast. Now I consider empathy

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