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The Power Paradox: The Empathy Trap
This episode unpacks Dacher Keltner's 'The Power Paradox,' revealing how influence is a social gift bestowed through empathy, yet often lost when power leads to self-focus and disconnection.
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“This episode unpacks Dacher Keltner's 'The Power Paradox,' revealing how influence is a social gift bestowed through empathy, yet often lost when power leads to self-focus and disconnection.”
— Dacher Keltner, The Power Paradox: The Empathy Trap
power, status, leadership
For leaders, aspiring influencers, and anyone navigating complex social dynamics, this book offers a critical framework to understand how genuine power is earned through connection, and how to sustain it by avoiding the self-defeating 'empathy trap' that often accompanies authority.
Dacher Keltner, a distinguished professor of psychology and a leading authority on emotion and power, distills decades of groundbreaking research into a counterintuitive understanding of influence and its inherent challenges.