Learn about the six habits of highly empathic people (in English and German) from netzfrauen.org:
But what is empathy? It’s the ability to step into the shoes of another person, aiming to understand their feelings and perspectives, and to use that understanding to guide our actions. That makes it different from kindness or pity. And don’t confuse it with the Golden Rule, “do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” As George Bernard Shaw pointed out, “do not do unto others as you would have them do unto you—they might have different tastes.” Empathy is about discovering those tastes.