Place your pecans in a skillet. Toast them over medium heat, making sure to stir them constantly. When the pecans start giving off a pleasant aroma, you can remove them from the heat. Place the pecans, condensed milk, maple syrup, cinnamon, and vanilla extract in a blender. Blend until your pecans are finely chopped. You do not want the pecans to completely dissolve into the liquids. Place your mixture in a sauce pan. Cook the mixture over low heat until it's just warm. Steeping is the method in which you let solid ingredients stay in liquid ingredients to absorb the flavor. The pecans should steep for about 30 minutes. When the steeping process is over, strain your pecans into a small container. You now have pecan pie flavored creamer.
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One-sentence summary -- Toast your pecans. Blend your ingredients. Heat your mixture. Steep the pecans and strain.

. Empathy stems from the desire to know more about other people, other experiences. Get curious about what life is like for people who aren't you. Make it a point to learn as much as you can about other things every day. Here are a few ways to act on your curiosity: Travel more. When you go to places you've never visited, make a point of spending time with people who live there and getting to know more about the way of life. Talk to strangers. If you find yourself sitting next to someone on a bus, strike up a conversation instead of burying your nose in a book. Get out of your regular routine. If you tend to hang out with the same people and go to the same places all of the time, mix it up and start meeting new people. Expand your world a little. If you notice areas where your empathy is lacking, make it a point to change how you feel, or at least gain a greater understanding of people and groups you don't like. The moment you feel repelled by someone, ask yourself why. Decide that instead of avoiding or badmouthing that person, you're going to put yourself in their shoes. Find out what you can learn by being empathetic toward people you don't like. Remember that even if you don't reach some kind of agreement, you can still feel empathetic. It's possible to feel empathy for someone you actively dislike. And who knows, once you open yourself up a bit, you might find reasons to change your mind about the person. This is a simple way to generate instances of empathy on a daily basis. Instead of considering emotional talk off-limits, ask people about their emotions more often, and really listen to their responses. This doesn't mean that every conversation has to get deep, solemn and philosophical. But asking people how they feel can help you engage more fully, and really see the person you're talking to. The other side of the coin is to respond more truthfully when someone asks you how you feel. Instead of saying "Great!" when you actually feel down, why not express the truth? See what happens when you put your emotions out there a bit more instead of keeping them contained. ion. Absorbing a lot of stories, in the form of novels, films, and other media is a good way to develop your sense of empathy. Studies show that reading literary fiction actually improves your ability to empathize in real life. It helps you get in the habit of imagining what life would be like if you were someone else. The catharsis of laughing or crying along with character can help you be more emotionally open with people. If you're having trouble knowing whether you're empathetic, try practicing empathy with someone else. Make sure the person knows that you want to work on this, so they'll understand if you don't hit just the right note. Ask the person to tell you how they feel, and practice all the steps above to feel along with them. Then tell the person how you feel as a result of what they told you. See if the feelings matched up. If the person expressed sadness, and you felt sad when they were talking, then you read their emotions correctly. If the feelings didn't match up, you may need to spend more time getting in tune with your own emotions and practice recognizing emotions in other people.
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One-sentence summary -- Be open to learning more about what you don't understand Try harder to empathize with people you don't like. Make a point to ask people how they feel. and watch more fiction. Practice empathy with someone you trust.

Starting with the bottom of the shirt, roll or fold the bottom of the shirt up until your torso is exposed. This gets the majority of the shirt bunched together in one place, leaving the harder parts, like the neck and arms, for last. Keep rolling it upwards, bunching it so that the bottom of the shirt is now around your shoulders. You may have to push hard to stretch the bottom of the shirt around your shoulders, depending on how tight the shirt is. Once the shirt is completely over your shoulders, pull the neckline up over your head. The folded lower portion of the shirt will still be stretched around your shoulders, and the sleeves will still be on your arms. If you need to protect your hair-do, use both hands to stretch the neckline over your head without touching your hair. Now that your neck is through and the shirt is stretched around your upper body, raise your hands up. The shirt will pop off of your head and you'll only be wearing the shirt on your arms. Simply lower your arms and remove the shirt. This might be a little tricky if the shirt has tight, long sleeves, but tug on the shirt until it comes off. You're now shirtless!
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Roll the shirt up your torso. Push the rolled torso portion over your shoulders. Pull the neck over your head. Extend your arms. Take the shirt off your arms.