The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters

From the host of the New York Times podcast Together Apart, an exciting new approach to how we gather that will transform the ways we spend our time together—at home, at work, in our communities, and beyond.In The Art of Gathering, Priya Parker argues that the gatherings in our lives are lackluster and unproductive--which they don't have to be.

We rely too much on routine and the conventions of gatherings when we should focus on distinctiveness and the people involved.