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A review by ferre_smeets
How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
emotional
informative
inspiring
relaxing
medium-paced
3.5
The advantages of learning to read other people, as if it were a foreign language.
Not terrible, not amazing
The book is definitely a good starting point, kind of an 'introductory course' that points you in multiple directions to explore this topic differently. It doesn't really have a clear throughline, though, and is just throwing random 'symptoms', 'causes' and 'solutions' at you, all thrown together.
I definitely became more aware of certain things (in the same way that an english lesson makes you aware of the existence of a genitive, which you've been using unconsciously forever) but there are no real revelations in this book for most people.
Not terrible, not amazing
The book is definitely a good starting point, kind of an 'introductory course' that points you in multiple directions to explore this topic differently. It doesn't really have a clear throughline, though, and is just throwing random 'symptoms', 'causes' and 'solutions' at you, all thrown together.
I definitely became more aware of certain things (in the same way that an english lesson makes you aware of the existence of a genitive, which you've been using unconsciously forever) but there are no real revelations in this book for most people.