Writer, cultural commentator, and New York Times columnist David Brooks has some advice for how to develop a healthy family, company, classroom, community or nation in our deeply polarized society: make other people feel valued, heard, and understood. A Chicago Humanities favorite, Brooks offers this advice and more in his highly anticipated new book, How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen. Sitting down for a conversation with MSNBC and The Washington Post's Jonathan Capehart, Brooks will guide audiences through the intricacies of empathy, vulnerability, and the quest for genuine connection, asking us all how we can see something larger in our fellow human beings and, therefore, see something larger in ourselves.

David Brooks will personalize copies of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen following the program.

• This program is generously underwritten by the Robert R. McCormick Foundation. 
• We are pleased to partner with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores, a not-for-profit bookstore whose mission is bookselling. General public tickets include a pre-signed copy of How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen, which you will pick up at the event by showing the book voucher in your receipt. Students, Teachers, and Charter Humanist member tickets do not include a book, but anyone can add a book to their cart when selecting their tickets.
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