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Grateful, to stay humble and to be brave. "in the road to character" david brooks draws as distinction between resume virtues and eulogy virtues. resume virtues are your achievement and your skills. eulogy virtues are those discussed at your funeral. the ones that exist at tcore of your being whether youre kind, grateful, honest and this person has a solid sense of right and wrong not only to do good but to be good. he wants to love intimately to sacrifice self and the service of others and to l...

Grateful, to stay humble, and to be brave. in the road to character, david brooks draws the distinction between resume virtues and eulogy virtues. resume virtues are your achievements and skills. eulogy virtues are those discussed at your funeral. the ones that exist at the core of your being, whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful. this person is a quiet but solemn sense of right and wrong, not only to do good but to be good. he wants to love intimately and to sacrifice self and the se...

Be brave. in the road to character david brooks draws a distinction between virtues and eulogy virtues. resume virtues are achievements and skills. eulogy virtues are those discussed at your funeral, the ones that exist at the core of your being, whether you are kind, brave, honest, or faithful. this person has a quiet but solid sense of right and wrong, not only to do good but to be good. he wants to love intimately, to sacrifice self and the service of others and to live in obedience to some t...

You should just give them to us since were going to be here anyway its kind of a no brainer last week we brought you david brookss thoughts on the 2016 presidential candidates. this week david brookss thoughts on you. brooks is, of course, a "new york times" columnist who is best known perhaps for writing about politics, but his books take a different tack and this new one is called "the road to character." its the kind of book that makes people re-examine their lives and how they choose to li...

>> so the resume virtues are the stuff you take to the marketplace, whether youre good at journalism whether youre good at accounting, whether youre a good teacher. the eulogy virtues are the things they say about you after youre dead, whether youre honest, brave, courageous, capable of deep love. and we all know the eulogy virtues are just much more important. we all want to have those much more than the other. yet we live in a culture that praises the resume virtues and leaves the eulogy virtu...

Its the stuff to the workplace, the eulogy are the things they say after your dead. courageous, honorable bold, capable of great love. we have a school system and a culture that emphasizes the resume and ignores the eulogy virtues. our kids dont get that message. >> now i read in the book that you wrote this road to character to save your own soul. >> yeah. well you know -- >> but is that why you wrote and it? >> to be a better person. there are some people who radiated it. >> but you know when ...

Virtues, the eulogy virtues, that you admire? >> you look at those who have a deep inner voice, people like abraham, lincoln. my friend now, samantha power, im a great friend of hers. i think she has deep inner passion. but the politicians right now, they are so busy all the time. they are their own product. its all me, me, me, me. they have very little time to cultivate. theyre very ambitious. if they did really step back and say, i want to really be introspective, i want to have a good life th...

Virtues, the eulogy virtues you that admire? >> you look at some of the figures who really represent those, they had a deep inner voice. people like abraham lincoln. i have friends now, samantha power u.n. ambassador, im a great friend of hers, and i think she has deep inner passion, a good inner life and an external life. but the politicians right now, they are so busy all the time they are their own product. its all me me me me me. they have very little time to cultivate. theyre very ambitious...