What Mel Robbins has said about Empathy perception gap
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 17, 2026
Mel Robbins, American author, podcast host and former lawyer who hosts The Mel Robbins Podcast, has been quoted on Empathy perception gap 2 times in 1 episode of The Mel Robbins Podcast, most recently on October 17, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Robbins cites Stanford research in which students guessed 87% of peers would help someone struggling, while 96% said they themselves would.
“Students guessed that about maybe 87% of their peers would help somebody who was having a hard time”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: This One Skill Makes Every Relationship Better (Oct 17, 2026) · Listen from 23:25
Robbins concludes that the barrier to connection is that everyone waits for someone else to reach out first.
“The thing standing between you and more connection in your life, more likability, is not that people don't care about you”
The Mel Robbins Podcast: This One Skill Makes Every Relationship Better (Oct 17, 2026) · Listen from 24:40
Episodes
This One Skill Makes Every Relationship BetterThe Mel Robbins Podcast · Oct 17, 2026 · 48 min
Mel Robbins teaches four research-backed ways to practice empathy, featuring clips of Adam Grant on 'pebbling' and the late Judge Frank Caprio.
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