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Intelligence Squared

David Brooks on the Road to Character

Intelligence Squared

Intelligence Squared

Arts, News, Society & Culture, News Commentary

4.21.1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2018

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

In May 2015, New York Times columnist David Brooks came to the Intelligence Squared stage to share the insights of his latest book, 'The Road to Character'. Brooks argued that today’s ‘Big Me’ culture is making us increasingly self-preoccupied: we live in a world where we’re taught to be assertive, to master skills, to broadcast our brand, to get likes, to get followers. But amidst all the noise of self-promotion, Brooks claimed that we’ve lost sight of an important and counterintuitive truth: that in order to fulfil ourselves we need to learn how to forget ourselves. Brooks was joined on stage by writer and lecturer on psychology, politics, and the arts Andrew Solomon. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/intelligencesquared. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Good evening. How kind of you all to come. David Brooks is going to speak for a little bit and then we'll have a conversation and then I will invite questions from all of you.

0:43.0

So keep those in mind as you're going along.

0:46.6

Let me just say by way of introduction,

0:48.9

presumably you know that David Brooks

0:51.0

is a columnist for the New York Times.

0:53.4

He is the conservative liberals love.

0:57.9

He has been the conservative voice at the times,

1:01.3

but in a country which has increasingly been struck with a kind of partisan

1:06.4

hysteria from either side, he's had a very balanced voice about matters of politics and state, but also about matters of the human intellect and the human heart.

1:18.0

His last book, Dave Cameron, required that his entire cabinet read, you can connect their subsequent performance to that or not as you prefer,

1:28.0

and his current book is number one at the moment on the New York Times bestseller list and I will let him

1:34.4

tell you about it in detail but I will say merely by way of introduction that it's a really

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profound and searching look and the

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profound and searching is not always something achieved by

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columnists even when they write in long form but it is a profound and

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