The road to character / David Brooks.
Publication details: London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin books, 2015.Description: xv, 300 pages ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780241186725 (hardback)
- 0241186722 (hardback)
- 155.2 23
- BF818 B87
- 179.9
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Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Non-Fiction | 155.2 BRO | Available | 059816 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The shift -- The summoned self -- Self-conquest -- Struggle -- Self-mastery -- Dignity -- Love -- Ordered love -- Self-examination -- The Big Me.
We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us? David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status is eroding our ability to create meaningful inner lives. To show us how to live better, he looks at people whose sense of humility was fundamental to their success. What they all understood was a simple but counterintuitive truth: in order to fulfill yourself, you must learn how to forget yourself.