https://gateway.bibliocommons.com/v2/libraries/austin/rss/search?query=%22Caring.%22&searchType=subject&origin=core-catalog-explore&view=groupedRSS for NodeSun, 19 Apr 2026 23:51:23 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2211227https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2211227Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2211227067BKThe Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seenenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593230060/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2212520https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2212520Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2212520067LPRINTThe Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seenenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593793657/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person and fostering 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 all around are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us do better, posing essential questions: 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 determination to grow as a person, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience and 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.]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9612515https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C9612515Tue, 31 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/9612515980EBOOKThe Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seenenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780593230084/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2274249https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2274249Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2274249067PICTURE_BOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781592704774/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2271061https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2271061Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2271061067PICTURE_BOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780736445740/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1952470https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C1952470Sun, 31 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/1952470067PICTURE_BOOKA Guide to Daily Happiness for Kidsenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780996099943/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2199631https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2199631Mon, 31 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2199631067PICTURE_BOOKenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780571374342/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2061940https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2061940Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2061940067BKThe Quest for A Moral Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780812993264/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2101627https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2101627Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2101627067LPRINTThe Quest for A Moral Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781984888341/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.
“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post
Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view . . . unsatisfying. They realize: This wasn’t my mountain after all. There’s another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain.
And so they embark on a new journey. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth wanting, not the things other people tell them to want. They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They surrender to a life of commitment.
In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose.
In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But it’s also a provocative social commentary. We live in a society, Brooks argues, that celebrates freedom, that tells us to be true to ourselves, at the expense of surrendering to a cause, rooting ourselves in a neighborhood, binding ourselves to others by social solidarity and love. We have taken individualism to the extreme—and in the process we have torn the social fabric in a thousand different ways. The path to repair is through making deeper commitments. In The Second Mountain, Brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives.]]>https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4367015https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S980C4367015Thu, 31 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/4367015980EBOOKThe Quest for a Moral Lifeenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9780679645047/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2265439https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2265439Fri, 31 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMThttps://austin.bibliocommons.com/item/comment/2265439067PICTURE_BOOKA Celebration of Service and Communityenghttps://secure.syndetics.com/index.aspx?isbn=9781536233445/MC.GIF&client=austinpl&type=xw12&oclc=https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2226562https://austin.bibliocommons.com/v2/record/S67C2226562Wed, 31 Jan 2024 00:00:00 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