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Brooks, David, 1961-
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Character.
Virtues.
Humility.
Self-actualization (Psychology).
Self-realization.
Success.
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Brooks, David, 1961-
Character.
Virtues.
Humility.
Self-actualization (Psychology).
Self-realization.
Success.
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The
road
to
character
/ by David Brooks.
by
Brooks, David, 1961-
Thorndike Press, [2015]
Call #:
LP 170.44 B873r
Subjects
Character
.
Virtues.
Humility.
Self-actualization (Psychology).
Self-realization.
Success.
ISBN:
9781410482785 (hc.)
1410482782 (hc.)
Edition:
Large print edition.
Description:
625 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Summary:
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The
Road
to
Character
, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our "résumé virtues"achieving wealth, fame, and statusand our "eulogy virtues," those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed. Looking to some of the worlds greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner
character
. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade.
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