Friday, October 10, 2014

Grading yourself on a forgiving curve.....

David Brooks give a speech on the tug-of-war between our material and spiritual selves.

"And so this is an achievement culture. A culture of people striving and trying to win success. The way I express this contrast, this hunger for success is by two sets of virtues, which you could call the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. And the résumé virtues are the things you bring to the marketplace which you put on a résumé. And the eulogy virtues are the things you get expressed in your eulogy. And these are non-overlapping categories. So the eulogy virtues are to give courage, to give honor, what kind of relationships do you build, did you love."

Transcript of speech is here.

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