中文简介：

克里斯蒂安·马德斯比约格（Christian Madsbjerg）在他富有启发性的新书中说，我们已经忘记了如何专注。认真倾听和有意观察是人类的重要技能，但我们并非生来就懂得如何去做。由于社交媒体无处不在，社会孤立日益严重，空洞的想象和意识形态代替了直接观察，我们正在丧失解读世界的能力，而这正是我们迫切需要的。马德斯比约格是纽约新学院的顾问和教授，他注意到了这一令人不安的趋势，并于2015年开始教授一门名为《人类观察》的课程。令他惊讶的是，这门课程从一开始就报名超额，数百名学生，包括哲学和商学专业的学生、本科生和研究生报名参加，还有数百人在候补名单上。在这本书中，马斯伯格认为我们大多数人都陷入了毫无意义地看待世界的坏习惯中，他引导我们掌握关键的观察技巧，解释了如何重新获得真正关注的能力，他称之为“观察的元技能”。马德斯比约格从自己的背景出发，从艺术、哲学和其他领域中汲取实例，写出了一本充满洞察力和实用智慧的书，强调了我们如何能够更加敏锐地关注生活，从而获得更多的同理心，更好地与他人沟通。

英文简介：

We've forgotten how to pay attention, Christian Madsbjerg says in his provocative new book. Listening carefully and observing intentionally are crucial human skills, yet we're not born knowing how to do them. And thanks to the ubiquity of social media, increasing social isolation, and the use of empty imagery and ideology as stand-ins for direct observation, we're losing our ability to interpret the world at a time when we desperately need to do that. Madsbjerg, a consultant and a professor at the New School, noticed this disturbing trend and in 2015 began to coteach a course on human observation called Human Observation. To his surprise, the course has been oversubscribed since the beginning, with hundreds of students - philosophy and business majors, undergrads and graduate students - signing up for it, and hundreds more on waiting lists. In this book, Madsbjerg argues that most of us are stuck in bad habits of looking at the world without truly seeing it, and he guides us through the key observational skills we need to explain how we can recapture our ability to truly pay attention - what he calls 'the meta-skill of observation.' Pulling from his own background and drawing examples from the arts, philosophy, and beyond, Madsbjerg has written a book of insight and practical wisdom that highlights how we can pay sharper attention to live with more empathy and connect better with others.