What it is
Three steps:
- Bias is the brain’s lazy filter, distorting reality.
- Judgment is swinging that filter like a hammer.
- Empathy is the countermeasure, the extinguisher. The reminder: I don’t know their story, and I don’t need to.
Empathy here isn’t surrender. It’s protection, frugality for the soul. You don’t spend your peace on a stranger who cut you off in traffic.
How it shows up for me
I use it in traffic, in comment sections and in grocery lines. “I don’t know their story” ends the movie in my head before it costs me the afternoon.