One afternoon, as a child out for a walk with my mother, I stepped on a bee. She assumed I’d done it deliberately, and perhaps I had. I was very young. I can’t remember. But I can remember how I felt when she asked me to imagine what the bee must have experienced when I trod on i

We’ve all heard versions of the Cherokee saying, “Don’t judge a man until you have walked a mile in his shoes.”  The adage describes empathy, the ability to  identify with the experience of others based on our own. The more experiences we have, the greater our emotional I. Q