The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

The Creative and Compassionate Art of Seeing Others Deeply with David Brooks

Join us for an online discussion with the prominent writer and bestselling author David Brooks about his book How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply. Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity and determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and the worlds of theater, philosophy, 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 toward others, and 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 profoundly creative: 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, and yearning to be understood.

David Brooks is one of the country’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times and a writer for The Atlantic, and he appears regularly on PBS Newshour. He is the bestselling author of The Second Mountain, The Road to Character, The Social Animal, Bobos in Paradise, and On Paradise Drive.

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