1: Both David Brooks‘s sons played baseball at a high level.
“One boy is eight years older than the other,” he writes in his book How to Know a Person,” so by the time the younger was about twelve, I’d been around youth baseball for about a decade, watching the professional coaches the league had hired to manage the older boy’s squads.”
Another dad was set to coach … continue reading
1: Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
This week, we’ve been exploring ideas from David Brooks‘s wonderful book How to Know a Person.
“Over the past four years,” he writes, “I’ve become determined to learn … continue reading
1: “Sometimes you can learn more about a person by watching how they talk to a waiter than by asking some profound question about their philosophy of life,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.
“Even when we know someone well,” he notes, “I find that if we don’t talk about the little things on … continue reading
1: M has contempt for her daughter-in-law, D.
“The mother-in-law is always perfectly polite to D, but inside, she looks down on her,” Iris Murdoch states in her celebrated lecture “The Sovereignty of Good over Other Concepts,” as shared by David Brooks in his book How to Know a Person.
“But M is aware that she can be a bit superior, conventional, and old-fashioned,” Iris notes. “M … continue reading
1: Journalist and author David Brooks was sitting at a bar near his home nursing his bourbon.
“Because the bar was in D.C.,” he writes in How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, “there were three guys at a table behind me talking about elections and swing states.Â
“I was studying the bartender’s Chinese-character tattoos and drawing all sorts of … continue reading
1: Journalist and author David Brooks was intimidated.
He was interviewing a ninety-three-year-old Black woman named LaRue Dorsey at a local diner in Waco, Texas.
A former teacher, LaRue “presented herself to me as a stern drill sergeant type, a woman, she wanted me to know, who was tough, who had standards, who laid down the law,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person.
“I … continue reading
Getting better at getting better is what RiseWithDrew is all about.
Monday through Thursday, we explore ideas from authors, thought leaders, and exemplary organizations. On Friday, I share something about myself or what we are working on at PCI.
What’s the most stressful situation in which to build a relationship?
A hostage crisis would rank near the top of the list.
This week, we’ve been exploring the ideas in David Brooks… continue reading
1: Some people are natural illuminators, David Brooks writes in his book How to Know Another Person.
Illuminators “have a persistent curiosity about other people,” David writes. “They have been trained or have trained themselves in the craft of understanding others.”
They ask the right question at the right time. “They shine the brightness of their care on people and make they fell bigger, deeper, respected, lit up,” he … continue reading
1: “One day, not long ago,” David Brooks writes in his book How to Know a Person, “I was reading a dull book at my dining room table when I looked up and saw my wife framed in the front doorway of our house.Â
“The door was open. The late afternoon light was streaming in around her.
“Her mind was elsewhere, but her gaze was resting on a white … continue reading
Solving our big national problems by doing the small things well.
1: David Brooks is a journalist. His job is to interview people.Â
What has he learned?
“I often find myself interviewing people who tell me they feel invisible and disrespected,” he writes in his book How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen.
This feeling of being invisible shows up across … continue reading
