Empathy is a highly technical skill using expert levels of situational awareness, non verbal communication +cross cultural knowledge taking into account inequities based on intersections of marginalization of gender, sex, queerness, race, Socio-economic background to name a few.
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Do NOT undersell your fluency in Empathy.
Empathy has been routinely disregarded directly out of its association with women cause mysogyny.
Empathy is a super weapon. Without it all communication is ineffective and useless.
Empathy has been routinely disregarded directly out of its association with women cause mysogyny.
Empathy is a super weapon. Without it all communication is ineffective and useless.
If you cannot care to understand the WHY behind a thing, you cannot authentically exist in a dialogue with the other.
In design/software there is a concept of User Stories.
They form the bulk of task management communication.
In design/software there is a concept of User Stories.
They form the bulk of task management communication.
A user story in game development might be:
“As a player I want to have a map so that I can orient myself”
Empathy is required to have any sense of cohesion in team environments.
Empathy is non-negotiable.
“As a player I want to have a map so that I can orient myself”
Empathy is required to have any sense of cohesion in team environments.
Empathy is non-negotiable.
Every problem in every organization originates from a deficit of empathy.
All conflict can be mitigated and defused by surgical application of empathy.
This is not a “soft” skill - it is a hard technical skill that capitalism struggles to quantify.
All conflict can be mitigated and defused by surgical application of empathy.
This is not a “soft” skill - it is a hard technical skill that capitalism struggles to quantify.
Every single organization would do well to start investing in internal reporting systems that monitor the health and quality of empathy in leadership.
Without empathy, leadership is not. That simple.
Without empathy, leadership is not. That simple.
My capacity for and fluency with Empathy is the primary reason for how I got my job in games and why I was hired.
I am not an “entry level” Producer. These skills are from a lifetime of survival against adversity and abusive power structures as well as my hundreds of teachers.
I am not an “entry level” Producer. These skills are from a lifetime of survival against adversity and abusive power structures as well as my hundreds of teachers.
If you want to thrive in any role, you must develop your Empathy.
It is pivotal to healthy relationships, personal growth, healing and learning.
With proper application of empathy there is nothing that can stop you from attaining any goal you might have.
It is pivotal to healthy relationships, personal growth, healing and learning.
With proper application of empathy there is nothing that can stop you from attaining any goal you might have.
Empathy is the ability to acknowledge a shared reality and how the impact of that reality is different for another person.
A well designed game calls to empathy at many levels. That’s what can help cement the player experience.
A well designed game calls to empathy at many levels. That’s what can help cement the player experience.
Properly applied empathy in economy design can make the difference between a game studio failing or not because of its ability to understand the needs and desires of its players.
Anyways, I do need to go to bed, but I’ll end with:
Video games are the greatest vehicle for empathy. Empathy is possibility in story telling.
Be excellent to each other. 💖 🌻
Video games are the greatest vehicle for empathy. Empathy is possibility in story telling.
Be excellent to each other. 💖 🌻
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