Ocupation: Novelist
Life:
Empathy isn’t just something that happens to us — a meteor shower of synapses firing across the brain — it’s also a choice we make: to pay attention, to extend ourselves.
source: Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.23, Granta Books
topic: Choices, Empathy, Brain, Meteors, Firing, Synapses