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Sep 13, 2016 · Looking to some of the world’s 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.
Mar 10, 2015 · Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Looking to some of the world’s 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.
The Road to Character is the fourth book written by journalist David Brooks. Brooks taught an undergraduate course at Yale University for three years during the 2010s on humility, the subject of this book. Published in 2015, the author says, "I wrote it, to be honest, to save my own soul."
THE ROAD TO CHARACTER examines the lives of some of history’s greatest thinkers and leaders. Each example that he provides illustrates different ways in which one can get on the path towards achieving great character:
The Road to Character is an essential read in its entirety—Anne Lamott with a harder edge of moral philosophy, Seneca with a softer edge of spiritual sensitivity, E. F. Schumacher for perplexed moderns.” —Maria Popova, Brain Pickings. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on ...
Apr 14, 2015 · The Road to Character. David Brooks. Random House Publishing Group, Apr 14, 2015 - Social Science - 320 pages. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the...
Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth.
- David Brooks
A #1 New York Times Bestseller Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, David Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our “résumé virtues” ― achieving wealth, fame, and status; and our “eulogy virtues” ― kindness, bravery, honesty, and faithfulness.
- David Brooks
Aug 7, 2018 · THE ROAD TO CHARACTER examines the lives of some of history’s greatest thinkers and leaders. Each example that he provides illustrates different ways in which one can get on the path towards achieving great character:
Apr 20, 2015 · In “The Road to Character,” Brooks begins with a sweeping overview of the non-intersecting worlds of moral logic and economic logic, as he has it, dividing us into an “Adam I,” who seeks...
