The Quest for a Moral Life

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.7 • 14.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2021

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Do you ever feel like you’re spinning your existential wheels in life? That outwardly, you seem to be doing ok, but inwardly, you feel kind of empty? My guest today would say that you’ve got to move on from trekking up life’s first mountain, to begin a journey up its second. His name is David Brooks and he’s the author of The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life.

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brett. We're taking a break for the Thanksgiving holiday.
0:02.2	Gonna eat some turkey, some sweet potato casserole with the marshmallows on top.
0:05.6	Can't wait to dig into that.
0:06.6	In the meantime, we're going to re-broadcast episode number 518,
0:09.8	the quest for your moral life.
0:11.2	This is an interview I did with David Brooks back in 2019 about his book,
0:14.6	The Second Mountain, one of my favorite episodes.
0:16.6	Hope you enjoyed.
0:17.4	I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving.
0:18.9	I know I'm eating my sweet potato casserole with marshmallows on top.
0:22.0	I'll be thinking of you all.
0:22.9	Thank you so much for listening to the podcast.
0:24.5	We'll see you on Monday with a brand new episode.
0:35.4	Welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:38.0	Do you ever feel like you're spinning your existential wheels on life?
0:40.6	That outwardly you seem to be doing okay, but inwardly you feel kind of empty?
0:44.2	I guess they would say that you've got to move on from trekking up life's first mountain
0:47.6	to be getting a journey up its second.
0:49.2	His name is David Brooks and he's the author of The Second Mountain,
0:51.8	the quest for a moral life, and that book, David, makes the case of there are two mountains
0:55.4	that we climb in life.
0:56.4	The first is about the self, getting to college degrees, starting a career, buying a home,
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