It turns out that one can learn how to be compassionate. This is a very important ability if you want to have good relationships.“It turns out when we express compassion, we actually recruit circuits in the brain that we know to be involved in the positive emotions and happiness,” Davidson told News 8 after he saw the students’ artwork at the Pump House. …Davidson told the audience at the “La Crosse Compassion Project Live!” that compassion is best learned as a skill and “Communities like La Crosse are investing in ways I think will pay off as children develop.”