"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."

Taking you on my journey through the learning(s) captured in this book 📕as I start it and consider applying lessons and tips to my growth mindset.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives—from the author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain 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 How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us 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? 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. 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.

education

Learning & Education

communication

Communication

teamwork

Teamwork

books

Books

humanresources

Human Resources

David Brooks

How to Know a Person

"Each of us is more than the worst thing we've ever done."

Bryan Stevenson has inspired my value set on human dignity. His 2012 TED Talk is a must watch as a study on justice, compassion and equality. Mr. Stevenson is a human rights / equality rights lawyer in Alabama and founded the Equal Justice Initiative.

The leadership of Bryan Stevenson 

"Successful leaders balance pride with humility: absolute pride in performance; total humility before the magnitude of the task"

The Call To Lead 

CHARACTER AND HUMILITY 

Lesson 1 - Sweep the Sheds. The NZ All Blacks National Rugby team are proud to play for their country and have an identity driven by pride and humility. They don't let their jersey fall to the ground and they sweep the sheds following a game - a metaphor for being humble.

When the going gets tough, the tough start changing. Difficult times call for different solutions. In his global bestseller, Legacy, James Kerr goes deep into the heart of the world's most successful team, the New Zealand All Blacks, to help understand what it takes to bounce back from adversity and still reach the top. It is a book about leading a team or an organisation - but, more importantly, about leading a life. The kind of life that you want to lead. In today's volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous environment, personal leadership has never been more relevant and Legacy goes to the heart of how great leaders - and we are all leaders - 'reboot' and reframe their future. It is a truly life-defining read that addresses the big questions - values, vision, mindset and purpose - that, when answered, build the foundation for resilience, excellence and sustained success. This book will change your life. Champions do extra. They sweep the sheds, follow the spearhead, and keep a blue head. They are good ancestors and plant trees they'll never see.

How to Know a Person

The leadership of Bryan Stevenson

Legacy

David Gourlay