Empathy: Exercise Two -- Narrowing it Down Moving into Exercise Two, the empath trainee continues to return to the same public place to observe people. The exercise itself closely resembles Exercise One in that you will still refrain from judgment and imagination in people watching. The variation found in Exercise Two is that instead of focusing on people passing you in general, your task is to pick out one person per day amongst those that go by. If you can observe a person who stays in the area for a while, all the better. Again, simply sit and observe. Record any insights in a journal. Proceed to Exercise Three.