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The Second Mountain : The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks - undifferentiated, David Brooks is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—The Washington Post Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view... unsatisfying. They realize: This wasn't my mountain after all. There's another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain. And so they embark on a new journey. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth w

Who reads The Second Mountain : The Quest for a Moral Life?

Author

David Brooks - undifferentiated, David Brooks

Publisher

Random House Audio

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781984840769

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Self Help, Philosophy, Sociology

Rating

4.4 / 5 (3,458 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14