
RSA Animate
Philosopher Roman Krznaric argues that introspection, the therapeutic habit of looking inward to understand ourselves, has had its moment, and that outrospection, the practice of stepping into other people's lives and viewpoints, is what actually drives social change. Speaking to an RSA audience, he traces empathy from a private virtue into a social tool, pointing to historical figures and everyday examples of people who acted by first understanding an outsider's experience rather than their own feelings. The talk is illustrated in real time by Cognitive Media's whiteboard-style animation, the visual signature of the RSA Animate series, which sketches out his argument in doodles and diagrams as he speaks. Krznaric, author of 'Empathy: A Handbook for Revolution' and a founding faculty member of The School of Life, treats empathy as a skill that can be built rather than a trait people simply have or lack, and the film runs just long enough to lay out that case and its stakes for how people organize and change society.