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interesting video of Harvard Medical School psychiatry professor Helen Riess speaking about empathy and its importance to our society. To have EMPATHY means to employ: E--eye contact or gaze to see each other M--Muscles that make up facial expressions P--Posture--are you with your arms folded tight against your body or slumping because you don't want to be there? A--Affect-analyzing the expressed emotions of the other person T--tone of voice. Tone of voice and facial muscles are controlled by same place in brain--allow emotions to leak out H--Hearing whole person--context Y--Your response

Written by Yuhyun Park , the chair of infollutionZero Foundation. Great graphic of the digital literacies children must learn as "they spend, on average, 7 hours a day in front of screens from television and computers to mobile phones and various digital devices." He defines these skills as Digital Intelligence, or DQ: Digital Safety (behavior risks, content risks, contact risks), Digital Security (password protection, internet security, mobile security), Digital Emotional Intelligence (empathy, emotional awareness/regulation, social and emotional awareness), Digital Communication (online collaboration, online communication, digital footprint), digital literacy (computational thinking, content curation, critical thinking), digital rights (privacy, intellectual property rights, freedom of speech), digital identity (digital citizen, digital co-creator, digital entrepreneur), and Digital Use (screen time, digital health, community participation).

interesting post by Gwen Teatro, August 4, 2013 about how "nice" behaviors could show up in leadership through displays of kindness, truthfulness, respect, generosity, clarity, empathy, and civility. Like her blog and signed up to follow her

from disruptions section by Nick Bilton. How conversations about cyberbullying have come to the public forum because more and more people are victims of it. Cybermobs on twitter are like feeding frenzies, with those participating not thinking or wanting to be mean, but losing all feeling of empathy for the victim.

Great Slideshare based on question posed to Guy Kawasaki on three most important leadership traits--empathy, honesty, and humility is what Guy offered.

Kate Murphy talks about how we are now a culture of always doing something, and we avoid any reflective time because we are so unpracticed at it that we dwell on the negative when we do have quiet time without distraction. People will go far to avoid introspection - in experiments they give themselves electric shocks rather than sit quietly alone without anything to do. Research, especially the new neural research, all show that allowing your mind to drift is healthy and productive. Google, for example, has courses for employees in mindfulness, meditation, and "Search Inside Yourself". The research also shows that not giving yourself time to reflect impairs your ability to empathize with others. "Feeling what you feel is an ability that atrophies if you don't use it."

Another example of why reflection is important to well being, creativity, satisfaction with life, and connections to others

article by Joann S. Lublin, February 14, 2014, with examples of executives who overcame their fear of conflict in the workplace.