David Brooks: How To Know a Person, Gebunden
How To Know a Person
- The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen
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- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd, 10/2023
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780241670293
- Item number:
- 11507344
- Volume:
- 320 Pages
- Weight:
- 750 g
- Format:
- 240 x 156 mm
- Thickness:
- 40 mm
- Release date:
- 24.10.2023
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
Other releases of How To Know a Person |
Price |
|---|---|
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 10.77* |
| Buch, Kartoniert / Broschiert, Englisch | EUR 13.16* |
| Buch, Gebunden | EUR 28.00* |
Blurb
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.
Biography
David Brooks wurde 1961 in Toronto, Kanada, geboren und wuchs in New York auf. Nach dem Geschichtsstudium begann er seine journalistische Karriere bei der Washington Times und arbeitete unter anderem als Auslandskorrespondent des Wall Street Journal und als Senior Editor für den Weekly Standard, ehe er 2003 zur New York Times wechselte. Heute ist er die konservative Stimme der Times und einer der populärsten Kolumnisten der USA. Brooks ist Autor mehrerer Bücher.
