11. A leader is empathetic not sympathetic.🔗

a. Incident from Vivekananda's life . One night, Vivekananda woke up at 2 am and awakened his disciples. His disciples were anxious and wanted to know what was happening. Vivekananda said that he was feeling a lot of pain and that in some part of the world there was a natural calamity that was happening which was causing him the pain. The next day the morning papers announced a terrible earthquake in Cuba that consumed many lives. He was sensitive to a calamity that was happened in some corner of the world, thousands of miles away. What happened in Vivekananda's case is empathy. Empathy is when you feel another's suffering in your own Being. It is when a person does not have to sell you his suffering, but you simply know because the Existential Energy in you feels it.