Limits To Understanding People's Experiences Through Our Own
Channel: Alex Zorach
Date: 2015-06-27

As a child I was taught to understand people by putting myself in their shoes, but as I got older I came to see deep limitations of this approach. I think listening to people directly, and trusting what they express directly, is much more important, because the diversity of human experiences severely limits our ability to understand other people's experience by direct analogy to our own life.