How to Know a Person - The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let 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
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and his determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and from the worlds of theater, philosophy, history, and education to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is profoundly creative: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves?

Product details

• Authors: David Brooks
• Publisher: Random House USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Release: 06.08.2026
• EAN: 9780593977613
• ISBN: 978-0-593-97761-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Subject: Guides > Health