How can we become aware of our impact on the lives of others?

Zsolt Hermann
2 min readJan 12, 2023

Question from the Internet:

“How can we all be more aware and concerned with the impact our actions may have on someone else’s life?”

Since we are all born with an inherently 100% egocentric and subjective consciousness and perception, and we try to serve and justify ourselves in everything we do, we have no idea about the impact and influence we have on the lives of others.

Even when we are “emphasizing or sympathizing” with others, we project their problems onto ourselves and understand their plight and suffering from our own egocentric and subjective point of view.

In order to come to truly sense the lives, desires, needs, suffering, and joy of others, first of all, we need to recognize how much we are incapable of that by default. Only when we realize and accept how much we are close to ourselves and have absolutely no idea about how others truly feel, and it also disturbs us, and we really would like to feel and emphasize with others, then we can start to learn how to do this.

Only then can we measure our impact and influence on others — which is usually negative and destructive due to our inherently egocentric, subjective, individualistic, and exploitative calculations — and start consciously changing and refining our intentions through which we can reverse our negative influence to positive.

This requires a special method in a purposefully organized and conducted environment where each participant is willing to go through the above process for the sake of improving human interconnections and our influence on each other.

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Zsolt Hermann

I am a Hungarian-born Orthopedic surgeon presently living in New Zealand, with a profound interest in how mutually integrated living systems work.