How to Know a Person

BOOK SUMMARY

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 and let them feel valued, heard, and understood.

In How to Know a Person, David Brooks explores how better attention, deeper conversations, and genuine curiosity can help us build stronger relationships at home, at work, and throughout our lives. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, and storytelling, Brooks offers a hopeful and practical approach to human connection in an increasingly disconnected world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and a writer for The Atlantic. He appears regularly on the PBS NewsHour and is the bestselling author of The Road to Character, The Second Mountain, The Social Animal, Bobos in Paradise, and On Paradise Drive. He lives in Washington, D.C.

PRAISE

“More than a guide to better conversations, it’s a blueprint for a more connected and humane way of living.”
—Bill Gates, GatesNotes

PRODUCT INFORMATION

Trade paperback
320 pages
Non-fiction
8 in H | 5.2 in W | 0.7 in T | 0.5 lb