What is the value of empathy ?

Empathy is at its simplest awareness of the feelings and emotions of other people. It is a key element of emotional intelligence the link between self and others, because it is how we as individuals understand what others are experiencing as if we were feeling we were feeling it ourselves.
For example we need to be loved an to love to belong and to include can motivate us to consider the feeling of others. Our curiosity needs, our desire to understand our world, can also motivate us.