How To Know a Person

The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

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Allen Lane
13 February 2024

Psychology; Social, group or collective psychology; Psychology: emotions; Popular psychology

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.

By: David Brooks
Imprint: Allen Lane
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 241mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 513g
ISBN: 9780241670293
ISBN 10: 0241670292
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 February 2024
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and frequent broadcaster. His previous books include the bestsellers The Social Animal and Bobos in Paradise. His New York Times columns reach over 800,000 readers across the globe.

Reviews for How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

Original and useful… Brooks is a chatty, likeable guide * The TLS * A hands-on guide to making meaningful human connections * Kirkus Reviews * It really is a manual for our times - and everyone should read it -- Matthew D'Ancona David Brooks's superb new book * The New European *