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The Road to Character by David Brooks - undifferentiated, David Brooks is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Road to Character about?

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 successYou could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé 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 shal

Who reads The Road to Character?

Author

David Brooks - undifferentiated, David Brooks

Publisher

Random House Inc (t)

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780399589188

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Philosophy, Social Science, Social Sciences

Rating

3.66 / 5 (11,101 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14