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Thank you so much. I'm glad I could be here, at least for this part of the conference, it's such a wonderful thing to have a conference on empathy and compassion. There should be many more of them in many more places many more times. I'd like to talk about leadership and compassion. And I would like to expand our definition and understanding of both of those words.

For me, a leader is anyone who has a sphere of influence, and we all do in our lives somewhere. And as you'll see, over the course of my remarks, my idea of compassion includes but goes beyond giving explicit giving or giving in more subtle ways. Let me start with a story about a social psychology experiment that was done at the Princeton Theological Seminary with divinity students. Some of you may know this study, it's quite famous.