Self-compassion requires a sense of common humanity, recognizing that suffering and failure are part of the shared human condition.

“in my measurement and my construct of self-compassion we need to include the sense of common humanity i name it common humanity i actually wanted to call it interdependence or inter being it's kind of like going beyond the separate self but i knew that that would be kind of a hard term for most people to get their head around but that's really what it's pointing to when you have self-compassion you recognize that everyone's imperfect everyone needs an imperfect life suffering failure hardship this is part of the shared human condition”