CHEM-E0101 - Career Planning Exercises, Lecture, 3.10.2022-6.2.2023

In research, compassion has long been defined as alleviating another’s pain. According to another definition, compassion is equally also co-passion, the sharing of another’s enthusiasm. Co-passion is the twin of compassion, it is formed of the same elements as compassion: the ability to recognise another’s emotional state and empathise with it, as well as the actions expressing this empathy. For example, making another’s success visible within the work community by giving praise may be an act of co-passion.

Compassion has the power to revolutionise human relationships and communities: in the working life, compassion steps up the pace not only of the experience of meaningfulness, but also social relations among colleagues, innovations, cognitive achievement, well-being in the work place, and good customer relations. Also the value of co-passion is irreplaceable: what if your successes were never noticed within your work environment, in any way? Wouldn’t it be crushing, if nobody would rejoice with you?