The Resource The road to character, David Brooks
The road to character, David Brooks
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The item The road to character, David Brooks represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library.
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- Summary
- "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it."<U+0127> �David Brooks. 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"<U+0127> �achieving wealth, fame, and status<U+0127> �and 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 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. 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. 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. "Joy, " David Brooks writes, "is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes."--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xvii, 300 pages
- Contents
-
- The shift
- The summoned self
- Self-conquest
- Struggle
- Self-mastery
- Dignity
- Love
- Ordered love
- Self-examination
- The big me
- Isbn
- 9780812993257
- Label
- The road to character
- Title
- The road to character
- Statement of responsibility
- David Brooks
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it."<U+0127> �David Brooks. 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"<U+0127> �achieving wealth, fame, and status<U+0127> �and 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 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. 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. 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. "Joy, " David Brooks writes, "is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes."--
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
- Cataloging source
- TOH
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1961-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Brooks, David
- Dewey number
- 170.44
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Character
- Virtues
- Humility
- Label
- The road to character, David Brooks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- The shift -- The summoned self -- Self-conquest -- Struggle -- Self-mastery -- Dignity -- Love -- Ordered love -- Self-examination -- The big me
- Control code
- FIEb17715957
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812993257
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)906798072
- Label
- The road to character, David Brooks
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Contents
- The shift -- The summoned self -- Self-conquest -- Struggle -- Self-mastery -- Dignity -- Love -- Ordered love -- Self-examination -- The big me
- Control code
- FIEb17715957
- Dimensions
- 25 cm.
- Extent
- xvii, 300 pages
- Isbn
- 9780812993257
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
- (OCoLC)906798072
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