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The ability to understand another person's feelings, experience, or point of view.
Empathy
A story or explanation used to make sense of experience.
Narrative
The quality of being clear in thought, expression, or understanding.
Clarity
A repeated action or sequence that gives structure or meaning.
Ritual
The early period of life that strongly influences later development.
Formative years
The ability to think and behave in a developed and responsible way.
Maturity
The way a child is raised and influenced by family or environment.
Upbringing
Choosing or noticing only particular things rather than everything available.
Selective
Able to change in response to new situations or conditions.
Adaptable
To make something work as effectively as possible.
Optimise
A clear and deep understanding of something.
Insight
The belief that personal qualities or abilities cannot really change.
Fixed mindset
The way something is understood or explained.
Interpretation
Deeply established and difficult to change.
Ingrained
The act of returning a person or something to their country of origin.
Repatriation
The force or motivation that makes something happen.
Impetus
Something that seems real but is not exactly as it appears.
Illusion
Something accepted as true without complete proof.
Assumption
To make a problem, belief, or situation worse.
Exacerbate
To imagine that a situation is much worse than it really is.
Catastrophise
A person who has very strong, unreasonable beliefs or opinions about race, religion or politics and who will not listen to or accept the opinions of anyone who disagrees
Bigot
To change patterns in the brain or mind.
Rewire
The state of being unaware of something.
Obliviousness
To think repeatedly about the same problem, often in an unhelpful way.
Ruminate
To make something continue, especially something negative.
Perpetuate