Why we need to make compassion a verb again | Dr. Chris Kukk | TEDxNashvilleWomen
Chris Kukk |
TEDxNashvilleWomen
• December 2019
How could making compassion a verb affect our everyday world? Why does knowing the difference between compassion and empathy matter for you personally and professionally? What does compassion have to do with achieving success in fields ranging from economics and education to evolution and espionage? Dr. Chris Kukk, a compassion researcher and advocate, answers these questions and more using historical and scientific evidence.
Dr. Chris Kukk is the HarperCollins author of "The Compassionate Achiever," co-host of The Compassionate Achiever Podcast, founding Director of the Center for Compassion, Creativity and Innovation, Professor as well as Director of the Kathwari Honors Program at Western Connecticut State University, a Fulbright Scholar, and member of Phi Beta Kappa. His PhD in political science is from Boston College and his BA from Boston University. He was also an international security fellow at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a counter-intelligence agent for the United States Army. His research and publications combine neuroscience with the social sciences and focus on understanding how weaving values such as compassion into our learning, civic, and business communities affect levels of financial, intellectual, and social capital.
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