How empathetic am I?
Empathy has three types: Cognitive (understanding others' perspective), Emotional (feeling what others feel), Compassionate (moved to help). High emotional empathy without cognitive empathy leads to burnout. Balanced empathy is a skill that can be trained through perspective-taking exercises.
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