Road to character (Record no. 178386)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780241186725
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Classification number 170.44 BRO
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Personal name "Brooks, David"
245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Road to character
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Place of publication, distribution, etc. London
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Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Penguin
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Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2015
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Extent 300p.
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Summary, etc. In The Road to Character David Brooks, best-selling author of The Social Animal and New York Times columnist, explains why selflessness leads to greater success You could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world, the r?sum? virtues and the eulogy virtues. The r?sum? virtues are the ones you list on your CV, the skills that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They're what get talked about at your funeral and they are usually the virtues that exist at the core of your being - whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful, what kind of relationships you formed over your lifetime. In this urgent and soul-searching book, David Brooks explores the road to character. We live in a culture that encourages us to think about how to be wealthy and successful but which leaves many of us inarticulate about how to cultivate the deepest inner life. We know that this deeper life matters but it becomes subsumed by the day-to-day and the deepest parts of who we are go unexplored and unstructured. The Road to Character connects us once again to an ancient moral tradition, a tradition that asks us to confront our own weaknesses and grow in response, rather than shallowly focus on our good points. It is a focus David Brooks believes all of us - including himself - need to reconnect with now. Telling the stories of people through history who have exemplified the different activities that contribute to a deeper existence, Brooks uses the diverse lives of individuals such as George Eliot, Dwight Eisenhower and Augustine to explore traits such as self-mastery, dignity, vocation and love. He hopes that through considering their lives it will fire the longing we all have to be better, to find the path to character. David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and frequent broadcaster. His previous books include the bestsellers The Social Animal and Bobos in Paradise. His New York Times columns reach over 800,000 readers across the globe.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Self-perception
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