take upon oneself
verb1
To assume personal responsibility for.
- That's an awful lot of work to take upon yourself.
- Michael Poulin, associate professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo and colleagues showed in their 2017 study that an “imagine others” perspective leads to less stress than an “imagine self” perspective (i.e., walking a mile in someone else’s shoes). “You can think about another person’s feelings without taking those feelings upon yourself,” Poulin said. The distinction is important: Stay in your own shoes while appreciating another’s visual and perceptual perspective.2019 June 2, Joscelyn Duffy, “The Power of Perspective Taking”, in Pyschology Today:
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