圖書標籤: 心理學 道德 美國 David_Brooks 行為學 Character 生命 社科
发表于2024-07-04
The Road to Character pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024
“I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it.”—David Brooks
With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his New York Times column and his previous bestsellers, David Brooks has consistently illuminated our daily lives in surprising and original ways. In The Social Animal, he explored the neuroscience of human connection and how we can flourish together. Now, in The Road to Character, he focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our “résumé virtues”—achieving wealth, fame, and status—and our “eulogy virtues,” those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed.
Looking to some of the world’s greatest thinkers and inspiring leaders, Brooks explores how, through internal struggle and a sense of their own limitations, they have built a strong inner character. Labor activist Frances Perkins understood the need to suppress parts of herself so that she could be an instrument in a larger cause. Dwight Eisenhower organized his life not around impulsive self-expression but considered self-restraint. Dorothy Day, a devout Catholic convert and champion of the poor, learned as a young woman the vocabulary of simplicity and surrender. Civil rights pioneers A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin learned reticence and the logic of self-discipline, the need to distrust oneself even while waging a noble crusade.
Blending psychology, politics, spirituality, and confessional, The Road to Character provides an opportunity for us to rethink our priorities, and strive to build rich inner lives marked by humility and moral depth.
“Joy,” David Brooks writes, “is a byproduct experienced by people who are aiming for something else. But it comes.”
David Brooks is one of the nation’s leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist for The New York Time s and appears regularly on PBS NewsHour and Meet the Press. He is the bestselling author of The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement; Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There; and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.
比爾蓋茨推薦這本書,錶現他不光是個功成名就的人,還是個有內涵的人。但內涵隻是後麵那串零,沒有resume,哪來eulogy?
評分沒錢談啥Adam Ⅱ啊
評分真的讀跪瞭。他居然會寫齣這麼崇高高到雲端的書啊!
評分It's not so important to be that good. Decisions always confront with struggling. Can my Adam II choose instead of my Adam I? Not for me right now. It would lead me to disaster since I'm so self-conflicted. Anyway, does help.
評分開頭不錯,有幾章也好,比如講喬治馬歇爾的。但是有幾章大談宗教,拼命拔高。看不下去,棄之。
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評分 評分可能是因为最近看类似的书看的太多,导致读起来有点索然无味的感觉。翻开书,前言,第一章,第二章是值得读的。而本书最大的亮点在于: 1 亚当一号与亚当二号概念的提出。每个人心中都有两个小人,是时刻处于矛盾中的。睁开眼看看闹钟,时间已经很晚,一个小人说再睡三分钟,另...
評分犹太教的拉比索罗维奇1965年出版的有信仰的孤独人中,把人的天性分为社会性的亚当一号和精神性的亚当二号。本书的作者又把他归纳为简历中的美德和悼词中的美德。除了开头的导言和最后的结语,中间用了八章介绍八个历史人物。这类书籍的套路一般都是如此,蹩脚作家和畅销书作家...
評分事因难能,所以可贵。David Brooks的《The Road to Character》叙述了几个难能可贵的人物事迹,为世人勾勒了一副他眼中的品格之路,或如万维钢所称的圣贤之道。书中所列的人物都是历史上的名人,包括作家,思想家,社会活动家,军事家及政治家等,不一而足。每个人都有自己的喜...
The Road to Character pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024