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The Road to Character

The Road to Character

Book by David Brooks
3.7/5 · Goodreads
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... Wikipedia
Originally published: April 14, 2015
Author: David Brooks
ISBN: 978-0-8129-9325-7
Pages: 320
Rating (6,204) · $12.49 · In stock
In this thoughtful, penetrating book, New York Times op-ed columnist and author David Brooks walks us through the evolution of our culture away from a character ...
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The central question of this book is how to not only do good but be good. How to live a life of depth and meaning over success and achievement. One way to begin ...
The self-effacing person is soothing and gracious, while the self-promoting person is fragile and jarring. Humility is freedom from the need to prove you are ...
Brooks begins with Adam I and Adam II, two contradictory sides of human nature described in The Lonely Man of Faith by Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik. Adam I is the ...
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Mar 10, 2015 · #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and ...
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“The Road to Character” is a “road less traveled.” It involves moments of moral crisis, confrontation, and recovery. To go up, one first has to go down (The “U ...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core ...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success—“résumé virtues”—and our core principles ...
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 ...