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Private Equity Has Infiltrated Pro Sports. Now It's Going to College
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College sports is in turmoil. The pandemic is gutting budgets; schisms are forming between the haves and have-nots, and many conferences with normally steady income streams are struggling for cash.
In most industries, that'd be a perfect recipe for outside capital. But in college sports, with athletic departments tucked within public universities and non-profit conferences managing media assets, the path forward for private equity is less obvious.
And still there's interest from both sides, according to firm managers and university administrators. College sports needs money, and private equity firms have record amounts of it. The big question is—Can you structure a deal that satisfies both sides?
"For the most part, these athletic departments are not separate legal entities, so a debt package doesn't work, and they can't sell you equity because they're not incorporated like that," said one private equity veteran. "But those conversations are definitely happening, mostly at the league level."
More than 80% of the so-called Power 5 schools are public, and many have strict rules around transparent, competitive bidding for university contracts. Certain deal structures, particularly around debt issuance, could also jeopardize the entire university's tax exempt status, which would make them non-starters, some of the investors said.
Most agree that private equity's best avenue is instead through the conferences, and particularly around media payments, the long-term rights deals that companies like ESPN and Fox Sports pay to televise games on Saturday. An outside lender could give a hefty up-front payment to a conference, cash needed to offset losses from COVID-19, and be repaid through future TV revenue.
The Pac-12 is reportedly considering a similar structure. The league is working on a loan program for schools that could total nearly $1 billion, according to The Mercury News. By using TV payments as collateral, the conference plans to let each of its 12 schools borrow as much as $83 million, according to the report. (It's unclear who is providing the loan, and the conference declined to comment).
Long before COVID-19 hit, the Pac-12 hired the Raine Group to explore similar ways to access short-term capital. Leadership considered structures that were primarily debt, along with more nuanced deals that would give an outside investor equity in the conference's media enterprise. Despite interest from private equity shops and commercial banks, the schools eventually decided to do nothing.
The situation is different now, as the pandemic stretches into the fall and college football appears less likely by the day. Top-division athletic departments sold more than $1.1 billion in football tickets in 2018, and brought in more than $2.2 billion in media payments, mostly for football rights. Wisconsin, for example, has said its athletics department could lose more than $100 million in revenue this year.
Deals like the potential Pac-12 loan offering will likely be replicated at other top conferences. The Pac-12, however, is the only Power 5 conference that wholly owns its entire media enterprise. Only a few leagues have enough annual TV revenue to borrow against, and most of those conferences (the ACC, Big Ten and SEC) have complex partnerships with ESPN or Fox that include their own networks.
There's another possibility for private equity—challenge the NCAA from the outside. That's the goal of the Professional Collegiate League, which is currently raising money for an entity that will allow athletes to earn money playing basketball while getting an education.
The PCL's original plan was to partner with historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and have school-affiliated teams. Those conversations fell apart because the schools wanted minimal risk and hefty revenue guarantees, according to CEO Ricky Volante. Now the PCL is looking to raise around $40 million prior to next year's launch.
"The maximum value is to own and control all of your intellectual property, and all of your own teams," Volante said. "The only way to do that is if you're independent of the schools."
The holy grail would likely be to merge those two plans, possibly in a the form of an entirely new conference or collection of elite college programs. Those conversations, once a thought exercise in college boardrooms, have become much more realistic in the past few weeks.
The idea of a private equity-owned sports league isn't totally novel—Italy's top soccer league is currently weighing outside investors and during the 2004-05 NHL lockout, private equity giant Bain Capital offered to buy the entire league for $3 billion.
"There are a lot of people who would definitely be interested" in private equity money, one FBS athletic director told Sportico. "College sports, if it's done as an actual business in the future, could make even more money."


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Q: Visual Basic in Word: compare selection within range UPDATE: Following the suggestion of Cindy below, I used the InRange function. My function iterates fine through the Find operation. But the function is failing to return FALSE when the selection is outside the named range.  See "FAILING HERE" below. Thanks.
Using Visual Basic, I need to validate whether the selection location in a Word document is within a named range.  Many years ago, I used this code to do that:
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("typdef").Select

While ((WordBasic.CmpBookmarks("\Sel", "typedef") = 8 _
Or WordBasic.CmpBookmarks("\Sel", "typedef") = 6 _
Or WordBasic.CmpBookmarks("\Sel", "typedef") = 10) _
And leaveloop <> 1
...
If WordBasic.CmpBookmarks("\Sel", "\EndOfDoc") = 0 Then
    leaveloop = 1
End If
Wend

Here's the updated function I wrote:
Function FormatSpecHeadReturn(strStyle)

Dim rngBookmark As Word.Range
Dim rngSelection As Word.Range

Set rngBookmark = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("SpecBodyPairRange").Range
Set rngSelection = Selection.Range

var = rngSelection.InRange(rngBookmark)
Debug.Print var

Do While rngSelection.InRange(rngBookmark) = True

Selection.Find.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles(strStyle)
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
    .Text = "^p"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindAsk
    .Format = True
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = False
    .MatchWildcards = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute
Selection.HomeKey

' FAILING HERE: Returns TRUE when selection point
' is outside SpecBodyPairRange
var = rngSelection.InRange(rngBookmark)
Debug.Print var

Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdLine, Extend:=wdMove
Selection.InsertBefore Chr(182)
Selection.EndKey
Selection.InsertAfter vbTab
Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdLine, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove

    If rngSelection.InRange(rngBookmark) <> True Then Exit Do
  Loop
End Function

I was using CmpBookmarks in this current project, but it did not reliably returning the value of the current location. When the selection point is within the named range, it returns 8 for two loops, and then returns 6. When the selection point is outside the named range, CmpBookmarks returns 6.
Obviously, CmpBookmarks is deprecated. I can't find the return values that CmpBookmarks produces, and I can't find a modern equivalent function.
I confess I don't understand the difference between the named "SpecBodyPairRange" range and the range assigned to r, here:
Dim r As Range
I can see that "r" in this instance appears to hold the entire document. I studied Range Interface and Selection Interface on Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word, which I don't yet fully understand. I'm not a programmer, only a semi-technical writer self-taught in some coding who has the task of automating document conversion.
There must be a better way to compare the selection point to validate if it's within a named range, but I can't find it.  Any pointers you can give me are sincerely appreciated!

A: Not a big Word VBA person but can you just compare the Start and End properties?
Dim bm As Bookmark

Set bm = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("tester")
Debug.Print "Bookmark", bm.Start, bm.End
Debug.Print "Selection", Selection.Start, Selection.End

A: In order to determine whether one Range is within another use the InRange method:
Dim rngBookmark as Word.Range
Dim rngSelection as Word.Range

Set rngBookmark = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("typeDef").Range
Set rngSelection = Selection.Range
If rngSelection.InRange(rngBookmark) = True Then
  'Do something
End If

A: You could use VBA's InRange Method. For example:
Function FormatSpecHeadReturn(strStyle)
Dim Rng As Range
With ActiveDocument
  Set Rng = .Bookmarks("SpecBodyPairRange").Range
  With .Bookmarks("SpecBodyPairRange").Range
    With .Find
      .ClearFormatting
      .Replacement.ClearFormatting
      .Text = "^p"
      .Replacement.Text = ""
      .Style = strStyle
      .Format = True
      .Forward = True
      .Wrap = wdFindStop
      .MatchWildcards = False
      .Execute
    End With
    Do While .Find.Found
      If .InRange(Rng) = False Then Exit Do
      .Style = "SpecHead"
      .Paragraphs.First.InsertBefore Chr(182)
      .InsertAfter vbTab
      .Collapse wdCollapseEnd
      .Find.Execute
    Loop
  End With
End With
End Function

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Eric Johnson Premieres New Song, "Water Under the Bridge"
By Damian Fanelli published 21 September 16
(Image credit: Max Crace)
Guitar virtuoso Eric Johnson has just shared "Water Under the Bridge," a track from EJ, his upcoming all-acoustic album.
You can check out the song below. It joins two other EJ tracks—"The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise" and "Wrapped in a Cloud"—both of which were premiered at GuitarWorld.com.
Long known for his painstaking approach to making records, Johnson took a more immediate approach for EJ. Most of the material was cut live in the studio, with some songs even being sung and played at the same time.
"It's another side of me that I've always dabbled in but never really presented in my records or career," Johnson told GuitarWorld.com. "Usually, you're out doing your thing and get known for something that becomes your main deal and you just go with it. Meanwhile, I'll be sitting at home in my studio just doing what I enjoy. At some point, I decided to put things out and see what happens."
EJ is slated for an October 7 release. It's available for preorder here.
Damian Fanelli
Damian is editor-in-chief of Guitar World magazine. From 1998 to 2014, he was one third of Mister Neutron, an instrumental rock act that toured the universe and elsewhere and released three albums via Austin-based Deep Eddy Records. These days he performs with several New York City-area bands and can often be spotted with one of his many, many, many B-bender-equipped guitars. In past lives he was GW's managing editor and online managing editor – and he still can't believe he got to write the liner notes for the latest SRV box set.

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[TV] Amo: Season 1 Review
So Netflix has finally started to include original Philippine content in their library. One such inclusion was the critically-acclaimed Birdshot. Another was the surprising choice of Brillante Mendoza's Amo.
Originally created for TV5, the 13-episode series is a rather controversial look at the current "war on drugs" in the Philippines from man who has been pretty vocal about being pro-administration. Had it remained on local network TV5, we probably would not have paid attention to it.
But now it has a much wider distribution thanks to Netflix and thus this particular take on the supposed drug situation and that has some people squirming in their seats. Duterte's war on drug makes a lot of assumptions about the state of affairs in the Philippines and this show perpetuates them and presents them as the truth, if you buy into the premise of the show.
And while I was not interested in supporting this particular project, I figured that I neded to see it in order to make a proper review with all the facts in hand rather than just rely on other opinions out there. I bit the bullet and watchced the series from start to finish between other tasks.
Synopsis: Amo (Boss) is a 2017 Philippine crime drama series directed by Brillante Mendoza with writing credits for Troy Espiritu. The series originally set to air on TV5 starting August 2017 and has become available through Netflix this year.
Joseph Molina (Vince Rillon) is a young drug runner who juggles school and his drug carrying duties. As members of original gang have run-ins with the law, he somehow ends up moving up in the drug trade until he's eventually in charge of handling the supply of drugs to a Taguig night club. He is initially only able to stay out of trouble thanks to the help of an uncle in the police force who is more than willing to leverage personal ties to keep family out of hot water.
We also meet policeman Rodrigo Macareg (Derek Ramsay), who at first seems like a straight-up cop doing his part in fighting the war on drugs. But it is also revealed that he's not as clean as we'd like and he and other cops take it upon themselves to exploit some of their drug suspects in order to earn some money on the side. And he's not alone in this effort and it makes it harder to determine who the heroes are.
What I Liked: Amo gets a few things distinctly right about the drug situation in the Philippines. Never will you see a warrant being served prior to any of the police actions depicted. The cops operate based on instinct and there's a lot of kneejerk reactions like shooting at anyone running away from the scene of a raid or arresting anyone who looks suspecious in the area.
And for the most part, Rillon does his part to act the heck out of his role as Joseph. And for a good two-thirds of the series he is the major focus until we decide to move on to explore the corrupt cops a bit more. It's hard to comment on anyone else since they're so much motion blur at times. But at the very least this kid tries hard.
What Could Have Been Better: Where to begin here? The characters on the whole don't really have much agency in this series as things just keep happening around them and they just get pulled along in the current. Even things like the plan by the corrupt cops sort of comes out of nowhere so there's no reason to support him for we don't even know his motivations apart from basic greed. And that's not enough to craft a good story about - especially one with terribly shaky camera shots and very weight waist-high shots.
And as someone living in the Philippines, one can't help but feel bothered by the heavy-handed nature of pro-government stance here. All the characters that end up being the focus of police attention are in fact valid drug personalities. There are no false-positives here and the police always seem to get it right or the narco list remains irrefutable. The businessman who gets held for ransom by the cops was ultimately still a drug lord of some sort and thus it was really okay that he was taken advantage of. And that's not we know to be true.
The show is light on logic and big on action. We can't be bothered with legal delays and instead it's all about cops engaged in gun fights with drug personalities who are always armed as well and they always shoot back. Thus indirectly the show continually stresses that the drug war is correct because look at how bad things are.
TL;DR: Amo is a weird creation and one that is practically pro-Administration propaganda presented as conventional entertainment. And it's not even a well-done series so it's totally a waste of time for both intellectual and political reasons. And thus the series only gets 1 person killed in police encounters out of a possible 5.
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Oxilorphan (INN, USAN) (developmental code name L-BC-2605) is an opioid antagonist of the morphinan family that was never marketed. It acts as a μ-opioid receptor (MOR) antagonist but a κ-opioid receptor (KOR) partial agonist, and has similar effects to naloxone and around the same potency as an MOR antagonist. Oxilorphan has some weak partial agonist actions at the MOR (with miosis, nausea, dizziness, and some euphoria observed) and can produce hallucinogenic/dissociative effects at sufficient doses, indicative of KOR activation. It was trialed for the treatment of opioid addiction, but was not developed commercially. The KOR agonist effects of oxilorphan are associated with dysphoria, which combined with its hallucinogenic effects, serve to limit its clinical usefulness; indeed, many patients who experienced these side effects refused to take additional doses in clinical trials.

See also
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 Levallorphan
 Levomethorphan
 Levorphanol
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 Proxorphan
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The Hugo Steinhaus Centre, acting on behalf of the Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, is working with BNY Mellon to organise an inaugural competition for the best master's thesis on financial services in the field of applied mathematics - with BNY Mellon Science as the lead financial sponsor.
The competition is open to Master's students at Polish Universities who graduated in 2017 or will graduate in 2018. Applications should be submitted in English or, if in Polish, must be accompanied by a full English translation. Submissions will be reviewed by a panel of judges comprised of leading academics and finance professionals from both The Hugo Steinhaus Centre and BNY Mellon to determine three finalists.
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We recognized, that specialy to the eastern part of Europe a lot of new data was added. The entire Europe mapset now requires 16GB space on your harddrive. For this reason we now ship the new "V11011 Europe East-West Navteq® 2013" and "V11013 UPGRADE Europa East-West Navteq® 2013" on USB-Stick. All other Navteq® 2013 Products will be shipped on DVD.
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As a new product we have "V11001 DACH Truck Navteq® 2013". Germany, Austria and Switzerland are covered. This dataset has the truck attributes included as provided by Navteq®. This product installs in QuoVadis as a separate map. When calculation a route, attributes of the vehicle/truck - size and weight - are taken into account, as far as restrictions are known to the Navteq® 2013 dataset. In the QuoVadis mapview, streets with truck-specific restrictions can be highlighted in color.
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Athletic Club Are Finalizing A Deal For Alaves B Striker Asier Benito
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It has been a busy week for Lezama with two new players being added to the fabled youth academy. Gernika forward, Inigo Munoz, and Santutxu midfielder, Unai Vencedor, have been signed for the upcoming season, but the Lions are not stopping there. According to reports they are also in talks to sign Real Sociedad B forward, Eneko Jauregi, who is out of contract at the end of the season. However, there will likely be another young footballer announced in the coming weeks.
Benito is on his way back to Athletic Club (Image via Alaves)
After rejecting a renewal offer from Alaves, Athletic are close to finalizing a deal that will see striker Asier Benito join Bilbao Athletic for the upcoming campaign.
Benito is the leading scorer for Alaves B this season and a very talented player. The 22-year-old is quite versatile and knows how to use his speed to cause problems for defenders. His best quality is his movement away from the ball and ability to shift into other positions in attack to create holes and chances in front of goal. His contract expires in June and there will be no renewal despite Alaves offering him quite a lucrative deal for his age. He already made his first team debut last season and other clubs, such as Eibar, have kept a close eye on the forward.
According to a recent report from El Correo, the striker had several demands before he would sign a new deal with Alaves. Even after those were agreed to, he took the advice of his father and chose to reject the contract in hopes of returning to Athletic Club. Benito spent 2011-2012 at Lezama and has always dreamed of returning and fighting for a chance to play at the San Mames one day. He has been in talks with the Lions since rejecting the renewal offer from Alaves and it is believed that it will only be a matter of time before he officially signs with Bilbao Athletic for next season. Alaves B have left him out of the squad in a few big games since turning them down so it is clear that he is on the way out, with his Athletic dream close to becoming a reality.
This won't be the first time that Athletic have lured a young star away from Alaves. Just a few years ago they secured the move of Mikel Vesga who went on to help Bilbao Athletic earn promoting to the Segunda. Vesga then began this season with the first team and is now on loan with Sporting Gijon where he is playing at a very high level and making his case for the first team next season. Alaves is a club with a strong youth academy and Athletic like to keep a close eye on their neighbors.
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Top 30 Empathy Lessons for Life, the book
By Lou Agosta on March 26, 2018
This book contains some thirty (30) empathy lessons for life. A key empathy lesson that explicitly addresses empathy training: remove the resistance to empathy—obstacles such as cynicism, shame, guilt, aggression, narcissism, devaluing language, and so on—and empathy spontaneously shows up, comes forth, develops, and grows.Most people are naturally empathic. This is the training in a nutshell.
(To order the book click here: Empathy Lessons.) Read on for more details –
The empathy lessons in this book include how—
to perform a readiness assessment and establish a set up for success in cleaning up inauthenticities that block empathy so that empathy can expand and flourish (perhaps the most challenging part of this work);
empathy is not an "on–off" switch but a tuner (dial or dimmer) that expands or contracts in accessing the vicarious experience of the other person;
empathy breaks down in emotional contagion, empathic distress, "compassion fatigue" (in quotes because it is really about compassion, not empathy), burnout, conformity, projection, devaluing language, and, most significantly, how to overcome these break downs of empathy through multi-dimensional empathy;
empathy works as a method of data gathering in relating to the other person, providing a vicarious experience of the other person without being overwhelmed by the experience;
introspection, vicarious experience, listening to one's own "voice over" and radical acceptance of one's own experiences are the royal road to empathic receptivity;
empathic understanding overcomes conformity and creates possibilities of shifting out of stuckness into contribution, transformation, and leadership, including possibilities of engaging and attaining satisfying and flourishing relationships;
empathic interpretation is the folk definition of empathy, walking in another's shoes, adding "top down" empathy to "bottom up," empathic receptivity;
empathic responsiveness drives out anger and rage, acting as a soothing balm to suffering and emotional upset, deescalating conflict and aggression;
scientific, peer-reviewed, evidence-based research confirms that empathy (and a set of related interventions) reduce inflammation and stress, the five forms of stress, and connecting the dots between empathy, the reduction of inflammation, and stress reduction;
relationships get "weaponized" in bullying and, coming from empathy, how to overcome bullying, reestablishing boundaries: recommendations that promote empathy in students, teachers, administrators, and stop bullying (including cyber bullying);
"corporate empathy" is not a contradiction in terms, "CEO" now means "chief empathy officer," and empathy is applied as the ultimate "capitalist tool";
empathy is the "secret sauce" in sexual satisfaction within an authentic relationship, featuring the desire of desire, the "good parts," and intimate engagements that are sustainable and last.
These empathy lessons put you back in touch with your empathy. Most people have quite a lot of empathy but are out of touch with it. Empathy lessons—not merely the formal title of this book, the actual practices—provide applications to tough cases. The applications give back to you your power in engaging and overcoming life's social stresses and the need to expand well-being in the face of emotional upset, handling dynamic relationships, meeting business challenges in the corporate jungle and empathy desert, overcoming bullies and bullying, and applying and practicing empathy in sex and romance.
Our work together in this book is fully buzz word compliant including—
what is "mind reading"; how mind reading relates to empathy; the break down in empathy of "mind misreading"; and what is missing in mind reading, needed to bring it to fruition in empathic receptivity;
the ongoing debates about mirror neurons and the neurological basis of empathy (and an understandable explanation of their significance (and limits)); and the deeper truth that all human beings are related whether or not mirror neurons exist;
disorders of empathy such as Asperger's and autism and (in a different context) the psychopathic person;
who or what is the "Natural Empath" and how this person, seemingly caught between nature and nurture, provides empathy lessons in abundance; and what happens when the Good Samaritan meets the Natural Empath;
social referencing and how we process the feelings of other people (and how that works);
evidence-based everything in which one would no more jump out of an airplane without a parachute or treat a bacterial infection without penicillin than engage with a human being without empathy (positively stated, start with empathy or one is headed for trouble);
and practical applications to tough, recalcitrant cases using literature, film, and story telling to teach empathy—deliver empathy lessons—and overcome the common breakdowns in the practice of empathy.
This work brings you step-by-step from what it takes to be present—fully present—with another human being, through the breakdowns and misfirings of empathic understanding to radical acceptance, which is profoundly different than mere agreement with someone's opinion.
A bold statement of the obvious: I acknowledge that I am a proponent of empathy. Yet empathy has a dark side, too. Yes, compassion fatigue and burnout; but also Machiavellian and alienated empathy in business—appearing to be empathic while only being interested in closing the sale: walking in the other's shoes to sell another pair to the other person. How to turn these risks, resistances, and breakdowns to advantage and even breakthroughs in satisfying and successful relationships in one's personal life, career, business, and parenting, are canvassed in detail.
Every break down in empathy points the way to a potential breakthrough, if one knows how to listen, identify what's missing, restore it, process, and respond.
In Chapter One, our empathy lessons introduce and clarify the multi-dimensional definition of empathy. The four dimensions of empathic receptivity, empathic understanding, empathic interpretation, and empathic responsiveness are defined, exemplified, clarified. These four aspects of the process of empathy are used throughout this work on empathy and applied to diverse examples, situations, cases, and stories.
In Chapter Two, our work uncovers the misfirings and failures of empathy including: empathy breakdowns in emotional contagion, burnout, empathic distress, "compassion fatigue," conformity, projection such as egocentrism and narcissism, and devaluing talk that gets "lost in translation" in gossip, shaming, and bullying speech. The secret to expanding empathy is practicing overcoming these breakdowns.
In Chapter Three, the empathy lessons lead the reader from overcoming resistances to empathy to the breakthrough of empathy training and empathy as a method of data gathering that can be taught.
In Chapter Four, the data supporting evidence-based training in empathy is engaged and developed, as the Natural Empath meets the Good Samaritan, resulting in expanded control of the dial to tune empathy up and turn it down when one needs to do so.
In Chapter Five, empathy lessons directly engage the work of expanding the reader's empathic receptivity in (1) the vicarious experience of the lives of others; (2) empathic understanding of possibilities of satisfaction in relatedness; (3) empathic interpretation in the folk definition of walking in the other person's shoes to connect with difficult individuals you might not have been able to relate to previously; (4) empathic responsiveness that leaves one in the presence of fulfilling relationships with human beings without anything else added.
In the next four chapters, the multi-dimensional approach to empathy is applied to four challenging cases (each a chapter) including: stress reduction, featuring empathy as a spa treatment for the human soul, evidence-based medicine, and the contribution of empathy to emotional well-being (Chapter Six); what happens to people when relationships get "weaponized," how empathy puts bullying in its place, including extensive recommendations for students, teachers, administrators on establishing boundaries (Chapter Seven); business in which empathy becomes a "capitalist tool" and ends up being good for business, too (Chapter Eight); sex and love and rock and roll in which "empathy is the new love"—what everyone really wants (Chapter Nine). This wide ranging, round-the-mountain romp through empathy lessons and the related recommendations are collected together in the final chapter on the top tips and techniques for expanding empathy (Chapter Ten).
As this intellectually rigorous but accessible and, I hope, intermittently humorous story of empathy unfolds, readers get empathy lessons on every page, pointing the way to success in expanding empathy in relationships, stress reduction, contribution to community, career, and romance. From time-to-time, I will pause for breath and remind the reader, like repeating a mantra, in order to drive the lesson down into the neurons through repetition: Empathy is oxygen for the soul. If you are short of breath due to life stress, get this book and expand your empathy through empathy lessons and applications. When all is said and done—when all the distinctions are deployed, arguments made, guidance provided, and recommendations completed—empathy means being in the presence of another human being.
A preface is the proper place for a personal reflection. Friends and colleagues have said to me, "Lou, nice work with the those other academic books on empathy you already published—great job!—but—how shall we put it delicately?—they are a tad too—too academic. What we really need now is something more readable, more accessible."
Voila! This book aspires to address the everyday, educated reader, rather than the scholar or academic. I hasten to add that does not mean that I am sloppy about distinctions or intellectually lazy. However, I caution my academic friends, who are also inspired to engage with empathy, that, instead of using "journal speak," I write casually and inspirationally. I use sentence fragments: "Likewise, with empathy." I speak in the first person, which I have found effective in inducing empathy in the reader. I say "her or his." Sometimes I even slip into using "they," even though the subject is singular. So please do not say that I do not take risks. I try to be funny, but do not try too hard. I engage the reader personally.
What then is my guidance to you, dear reader? The reader can expect me (the author) to empower you to expand your empathy. I provide the distinctions needed to inquire into your own empathy in such a way that it develops, unfolds, grows, and expands. A simple yet powerful definition of empathy is developed and is then applied to opening up and resolving tough cases. This approach to empathy enables you to get in touch with your own empathic abilities through practicing a series of simple empathy lessons that, in turn, are engaging, confronting, humorous, and inspiring.
In the world of advice to the reader, the first five chapters are a sustained look at the definition, meaning, and explanation of how empathy works (and sometimes doesn't work), delivering empathy lessons designed to make empathy present for the reader in the page-by-page progress of the work; the next four chapters are applications of empathy to four "tough cases"; and the final chapter is a summary in one place of tips and techniques encountered throughout the book with a modest amount of further analysis and explanation. This book was written as a coherent, integrated whole. Though modularly designed, the chapters were never separate papers, now cobbled together as an anthology. Nothing wrong with collections or anthologies as such; but this is not one of those.
The book's approach to empathy gathers examples from life experience, story telling, literature, film, the author's private empathy lessons, and his own biography and empathy consulting practice, to shift out of stuckness into expanded empathy. I provide examples of practices that have worked for me (and others) in expanding empathy in the real world. The anecdotes and vignettes are used with permission or are composites of experiences with identities changed to preserve anonymity. I am straight with you about practices that I believe work and practices that don't work; what are the pitfalls and breakdowns; and how to avoid them or if they are unavoidable, how to reduce and manage them.
In exchange, I expect the reader, well, to read. I also ask the reader to examine and test her or his own feelings and experiences in the light of what is presented. Expect to be challenged. Expect to have your comfort zone stretched in a firm yet empathic way. The narrative loops back on itself so that distinctions relevant to empathy are introduced and sustained, while the context for applying, practicing, and mastering the distinctions is deepened and broadened. The narrative then cycles back at a higher level of engagement, forming an upward spiral (rather than a circle) so that the connections between aspects of empathy are strengthened. Ultimately, I strive to make empathy present, and, bring it forth in a conversation with the reader. The extent to which I succeed in actually doing so, the reader must judge. Okay, I've read enough. I want to order the book (click here to order Empathy Lessons).Hold on tight—the journey is about to begin.
(c) Lou Agosta, PhD and the Chicago Empathy Project
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Empathy, Stress, and Brain Science
https://youtu.be/bdZo5EaweJc
A commitment to you: Who I am and what I do
Books (publications by Lou) on empathy
Contact Data and short BIO: Who I am, and why what I do makes a difference
Educational Media: Radio Show and Videos on Empathy featuring Lou
Empathy and Choosing a Talk Therapist, Coach, or Empathy Consultant
Empathy Training and Consulting
Newsletter on: Empathy in the Community (subscribe)
One Person's Empathy is Another's Counter-Transference
Psychiatric Services at Empathic-Resonance.org – Child, Adolescent, or Adult?
Empathy: The Secret, Underground History of Empathy
https://youtu.be/FWwBOEV2bRY
Top 7 Lessons on Empathy for Leadership
https://youtu.be/GrgDWDt4uqg
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