Face to Face

The Art of Human Connection

De: Brian Grazer, Brian Grazer - introduction

Narrado por: Steven Weber

Featured on CBS This Morning, Squawk Box, MSNBC, CNN, Bloomberg, Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, and more.

“Reading Face to Face is like being a fly on the wall, watching Brian Grazer work his magic. Utterly entertaining, this is how you become Hollywood’s best producer.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of Talking to Strangers

Legendary Hollywood producer and author of the bestselling A Curious Mind, Brian Grazer is back with a captivating new book about the life-changing ways we can connect with one another.

Much of Brian Grazer’s success—as a #1 New York Times bestselling author, Academy Award–winning producer, father, and husband—comes from his ability to establish genuine connections with almost anyone. In Face to Face, he takes you around the world and behind the scenes of some of his most iconic movies and television shows, like A Beautiful Mind, Empire, Arrested Development, American Gangster, and 8 Mile, to show just how much in-person encounters have revolutionized his life—and how they have the power to change yours.

With his flair for intriguing stories, Grazer reveals what he’s learned through interactions with people like Bill Gates, Taraji P. Henson, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Eminem, Prince, Spike Lee, and the Afghani rapper activist Sonita: that the secret to a bigger life lies in personal connection. In a world where our attention is too often focused downward at our devices, Grazer argues that we are missing an essential piece of the human experience. Only when we are face to face, able to look one another in the eyes, can we form the kinds of connections that expand our world views, deepen our self-awareness, and ultimately lead to our greatest achievements and most meaningful moments.

When we lift our eyes to look at the person in front of us, we open the door to infinite possibility.

Eye Contact

The stories are interesting and support the main argument which is that maintaining eye contact is the most important aspect if you want to really connect with people in the Western world. It briefly covers that other cultures have different views. This is the entire take away of about 4 hours of listening to the book. So unless you also like random stories of what famous movies happened by what circumstance, you can skip this audiobook.

Incredible book

Incredible book about human connection. The author shared his personal experience and those are vivid and rich in every way possible

Couldn’t put it down...

I loved this book for the reminder of what life is all about. In a time where technology has taken over true connection, it’s a must read/listen for everyone.

Added Relationship Building Skills to My Life

As someone who thinks deeply about human connection it’s often tempting to dismiss new books about it, thinking all has been said that is needed. Yet Brian’s likeability in various podcasts made me curious enough to listen to it, and it over delivers! I’ve definitely added some new tools to my networking and relationship building belt, and enjoyed every story that got me there!

Me gustó mucho

Es un libro sencillo pero muy sensible, nos habla y ejemplifica sobre la importancia de ver a las personas a la cara y cómo este pequeño gesto hace grandes cambios.
Es un libro inspirador

Is Human Connection lost?

This beautiful book with a theme of human connection is superb and needed in the current state of our society. Not only the importance personal connection, but how necessary it is to maintain human-to-human connection in a professional setting as well. Hearing how Brain learned and used interpersonal skills to succeed in his career is inspiring.

inspiring!!

loved it!!! highly recommend, very eye opening. I'd say a life changing book. it's a book you end up re-reading because u don't want to miss anything.

Brian Grazer - Hollywood Godfather

Brian Grazer has lots of interesting stories. He reminds me of a Hollywood godfather. Hollywood because everything is superlative. Everything is the best or the worst. No middle ground. Godfather because everything is about respect. People work with him not because of the money or the quality of the work but because they have a connection with and respect him. I hate to think what happens if someone disrespects him!

Good stories though.

Interesting But Didn’t Learn Much

This was interesting as an autobiography but not really educational. I was hoping for something more insightful, similar to How to Win Friends and Influence People. This was more just stories of meeting famous and extraordinary people from the author’s life. The stories were interesting though.

Insightful

So simple, yet profoundly insightful with immediate impact on a personal level. Something that will be part of me.