EAN: 9781802064308

BROOKS DAVID HOW TO KNOW A PERSON

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. 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.

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