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Distinguishes cognitive empathy (understanding how people think to achieve intents) from emotional empathy and argues for inductive research grounded in listening not surveys. Shows concrete methods: short phone or lunch listening sessions, accumulating interviews over months, patterning them into behavioral audience segments (example: Healthwise finds three weight loss styles: resign, sidetracked, inconsistent). Warns against overreliance on numbers — cites Netflix losing 800,000 DVD customers and spurious Week 3 correlations — and prescribes small repeated studies that actually change product direction.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:48Trash
- 3:19Convention
- 5:38Styles of Thinking
- 8:00Chart of Luck
- 10:00Think Make Check
- 12:58Empathy
- 15:00Emotional Empathy
- 18:40Cognitive Empathy
- 21:09Developing Empathy
- 24:53Conventions in Business
- 28:29Correlation is not causation
- 33:09Scientific rigor
- 35:25How do we feel confident
- 39:24Business culture
- 40:19Trailing vs Predictive
- 46:01Measuring Empathy
- 49:59Conclusion
- 54:21Questions
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