Brooks David: Kako izgraditi karakter

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Author: Brooks David
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Kako izgraditi karakter

Brooks David

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David Brooks: How to Build Character

With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have drawn millions of readers to his column in The New York Times and to his previous bestsellers, David Brooks continually illuminates our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In the book The Social Animal he explored the neuroscience of human connections and how we can thrive together. Now, in the book How to Build Character, he focused on the deeper values that should influence our lives. In response to what he calls the culture of the Big Self, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges both himself and us to strike a balance between our "resume virtues"—achieving wealth, fame, and status—and our "commendation virtues"; those that exist as the foundation of our being - kindness, courage, honesty or loyalty - focusing on the types of relationships we have created.

If we think about some of the world's greatest thinkers and leaders who provided inspiration, Brooks explores how they, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, built a stronger inner character. Frances Perkins, a worker's rights activist, realized the need to suppress parts of herself in order to be instrumental in achieving a greater goal. Dwight Eisenhower did not organize his life around impulsive self-expression, but thought about self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and patroness of the poor, learned at a young age the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned restraint and the logic of self-discipline and the need for self-doubt, even as they fight noble battles.

Linking psychology, politics, spirituality, and confession, How to Build Character offers us an opportunity to rethink our priorities and strive to build a rich inner life characterized by humility and morality.

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