The Psychology and Personal Growth Circle: How To Know A Person by David Brooks

Welcome to our cozy The Psychology and Personal Growth Circle which is part of the Social Book Club!

We will meet to discuss the book “How To Know A Person" (306 pages) written by David Brooks.

The idea is to connect with like minded readers that love to grow and get to know themselves better through reading and especially applying knowledge from books.

We meet up once a month and talk about our progress applying knowledge from a certain book and our experience.

The event will take place at the volunteer organisation MUT.
It is an organisation to supports humans, animals and the environment especially in Vienna.

MUT or the Social Book Club look forward to some donation to cover the cost of this event.
If you would like to help, please bring some cash with you.

Book Description:

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 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?

See you then!

All the best
Sebastian