Online: Book Club Meeting

How to Know a Person by David Brooks (2023; 320 pages, non-fiction)
Please join on Zoom for our discussion. And, feel free to join us for socializing anytime between 9:30 and 10:00. The meeting begins promptly at 10:00.

From Amazon.com:
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.” 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. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate toward others, and to 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.