Treat your empathy as a muscle that gets better with practice. Here are some tips that you can easily apply in your interactions:

• Observe with curiosity: If you see a rose that is not red, be curious to know more about it. The same goes for interactions. If you do not understand someone’s opinion, ask them why they think a certain way, instead of making assumptions.

• Go slow: In conversations, do you often complete other person’s sentences before they do? Slow down. It is not a race to reach conclusions.

• Be selfish: You are just one of the billions of people in this world. Your experiences are limited. Use conversations to learn from another person’s experiences and understand the world better.