A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another
person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and
throughout our lives-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author
of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain If you are going
to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you're
going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to
see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have
to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks
observes, "The older I get, the more I come to the certainty that
there is one skill at the center of any healthy family, company,
classroom, community or nation: the ability to see each other, to
know other people, to make them feel valued, heard and understood."
And yet we humans don't do this well. All around us are people who
feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person,
Brooks sets out to help us to do better, posing questions that are
essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of
attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations
should you have? What parts of a person's story should you pay
attention to? Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks
draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the
worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming,
hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a
Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate
towards others; it helps readers find the joy that comes from being
seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that
is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception. The act of
seeing another person, Brooks argues, is a profoundly creative act:
How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in
them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a
Person is for anyone searching for connection, seeking to
understand and yearning to be understood.
General
| Imprint: |
Allen Lane
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| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
David Brooks
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| Dimensions: |
240 x 156 x 40mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
352 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-241-67029-3 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-241-67029-2 |
| Barcode: |
9780241670293 |
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