Learning to See: David Brooks on Human Connection
Exploring David Brooks' insights on overcoming our 'epidemic of blindness' and learning to truly see each other in an age of bad generalizations and democratic crisis.
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The core problem in our society is that people don't feel seen or understood. The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something—to move from the prison of individualism to a life of other-centered commitment and service.
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