What do you mean by "putting yourself in other's shoes"?

Answer 1

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It means imagining or attempting to experience something from the other's point of view, or from his circumstances or situation.

Answer 2

to empathize

Answer 3

Seeing what it's like to be them.

Maybe they get beaten, but still manage to not be a total ****?

Then they are a good person...

Answer 4

try two understand how the other person feels

Answer 5

To go to the other person's perspective.

Answer 6

means..try feeling, realizing and experiencing exactly what the other person is feeling...or is going thro'

Answer 7

I can blame a lot about terror in Mumbai. It I put myself in other's shoes, my action / re action may differ.

Answer 8

Putting yourself in the other person's position and thinking that way in order to think in completeness.

Suppose you are an employee and want leave from the boss who refuses it. You feel offended and may consider him prejudiced. But may be that he had already given enough leaves before you came. Or load of work that particular day which must be done.

If you can put your legs in his shoes, you will understand the refusal better.

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Answer 9

Always put yourself in other's shoes.
If you feel that it hurts you,
it probably does hurt the person too.

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Try to put yourself in the other person's shoes. For instance, that bully may be mean because his parents are going through a divorce. We don't always know what is going on in someone else's private life, so give them the benefit of the doubt.

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Empathy is a skill that majority of the people don't have, actually don't even know about empathy. Here's a definition of empathy:

"The imaginative projection into another's feelings, a state of total identification with another's situation, condition, and thoughts. The action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without explicitly articulating these feelings"

In other words, empathy is the ability to "put yourself in other's shoes". Trying to understand other's viewpoints, trying to see the world from where the other stands.

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Answer 10

viewing the issue from the other person's perspective