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Lingua:Libri ItalianiNO.1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE SOCIAL ANIMAL
Are you on your first or second mountain?
Is life about you - or others?
About success - or something deeper?
The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want the things that are truly worth wanting.
This is the second mountain.
What does it mean to look beyond yourself and find a moral cause? To forget about independence and discover dependence - to be utterly enmeshed in a web of warm relationships? What does it mean to value intimacy, devotion, responsibility and commitment above individual freedom? In The Second Mountain David Brooks explores the meaning and possibilities that scaling a second mountain offer us and the four commitments that most commonly move us there: family, vocation, philosophy and community. Inspiring, personal and full of joy, this book will help you discover why you were really put on this earth.
In The Road to Character David Brooks, best-selling author of The Social Animal and New York Times columnist, explains why selflessness leads to greater success
You could say there are two kinds of virtues in the world, the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues. The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your CV, the skills that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They're what get talked about at your funeral and they are usually the virtues that exist at the core of your being - whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful, what kind of relationships you formed over your lifetime.
In this urgent and soul-searching book, David Brooks explores the road to character. We live in a culture that encourages us to think about how to be wealthy and successful, but which leaves many of us inarticulate about how to cultivate the deepest inner life. We know that this deeper life matters, but it becomes subsumed by the day-to-day, and the deepest parts of who we are go unexplored and unstructured. The Road to Character connects us once again to an ancient moral tradition, a tradition that asks us to confront our own weaknesses and grow in response, rather than shallowly focus on our good points. It is a focus David Brooks believes all of us - including himself - need to reconnect with now.
Telling the stories of people through history who have exemplified the different activities that contribute to a deeper existence, Brooks uses the diverse lives of individuals such as George Eliot, Dwight Eisenhower and Augustine to explore traits such as self-mastery, dignity, vocation and love. He hopes that through considering their lives it will fire the longing we all have to be better, to find the path to character.
David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times and frequent broadcaster. His previous books include the bestsellers The Social Animal and Bobos in Paradise. His New York Times columns reach over 800,000 readers across the globe.
Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.
Per la prima parte dell’esistenza, hanno inseguito traguardi che corrispondono alle aspettative generali. Hanno ottenuto successo, potere, reputazione e appagamento personale. Ma giunte in vetta, si sono guardate intorno e hanno sentito dentro il tarlo dell’insoddisfazione: questa non è la mia meta finale, non è quello che desideravo veramente.
Oppure, sopraggiunge un fallimento, una delusione, un lutto a buttarle giù da quella vetta che sembrava a tutta prima così seducente. E a quel punto, a valle, parte un sentiero che conduce a un secondo obiettivo, quello che vale davvero la pena raggiungere: spostare il fuoco da noi stessi agli altri. Consacrarci alla famiglia, scoprire una vocazione, ispirarsi a una filosofia o a una fede, dedicarci a una comunità: sono queste le quattro ispirazioni, i quattro impegni che ci danno la possibilità di realizzare noi stessi e scoprire la bellezza dell’interdipendenza tra le cose e le persone.
Questa è la seconda montagna. David Brooks, col suo messaggio potente e provocatorio, mette in discussione i fondamenti della nostra società e della nostra cultura delle relazioni, così celebrativa della libertà individuale. Mostra a chi legge la magia che nasce dal porre gli altri al centro della propria vita: la felicità può tramutarsi in qualcosa di più puro, rotondo, gratificante. Può trasformarsi in gioia.
With unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. He demolishes conventional definitions of success and looks toward a culture based on trust and humility. The Social Animal is a moving intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. It is an essential book for our time—one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you’re going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks observes, “The older I get, the more I come to the certainty that there is one skill at the center of any healthy family, company, classroom, community or nation: the ability to see each other, to know other people, to make them feel valued, heard and understood.”
And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help us to do better, posing questions that are essential for all of us. If you want to know a person, what kind of attention should you cast on them? What kind of conversations should you have? What parts of a person’s story should you pay attention to?
Driven by his trademark sense of curiosity, Brooks draws from the fields of psychology and neuroscience, and from the worlds of theatre, history, and education, to present a welcoming, hopeful, integrated approach to human connection. How to Know a Person helps readers become more understanding and considerate towards others; it helps readers find the joy that comes from being seen. Along the way it offers a possible remedy for a society that is riven by fragmentation, hostility, and misperception.
The act of seeing another person, Brooks argues, is a profoundly creative act: How can we look somebody in the eye and see something large in them, and in turn, see something larger in ourselves? How to Know a Person is for anyone searching for connection, seeking to understand and yearning to be understood.
Scott Stephens is the religion and ethics editor of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and the co-host (with Waleed Aly) of The Minefield on ABC Radio National. He is the author of On Contempt (forthcoming from Melbourne University Press).
Lorsque son mariage s’écroule après vingt-sept années de vie commune et deux enfants, David Brooks remet brutalement en question son mode de vie hyper-individualiste où le temps compte plus que les gens, la productivité plus que les relations. L’expérience de cet échec lui permet de développer la théorie de l’existence des « deux montagnes ».
La réalisation de soi est la « première montagne », mais elle cache une « deuxième montagne » vers laquelle nous devons tous tendre pour remettre au centre de nos vies individuelles et collectives la question du lien.
David Brooks est un célèbre éditorialiste du New York Times. Fin observateur du monde contemporain, il a inventé le concept du « bobo » (pour bourgeois-bohème). Il est l’auteur de nombreux ouvrages best-sellers et il intervient régulièrement à la radio et à la télévision.
LA PLENITUD DE UNA VIDA COMPROMETIDA, SOLIDARIA Y CON SENTIDO
De vez en cuando conocemos a personas que irradian felicidad, parecen saber para qué han venido a este mundo y brillan con luz propia.
Todas ellas comparten una trayectoria vital común, que podríamos describir como la silueta de dos montañas: en cuanto terminan los estudios emprenden una carrera profesional, y a partir de entonces empiezan a escalar la ladera que los conducirá al éxito, al estatus social y a la felicidad personal, siguiendo los dictados de nuestra cultura. Sin embargo, cuando llegan a la cumbre algo les pasa. Miran a su alrededor y el panorama no les satisface porque se dan cuenta de que aquella no es su montaña. Entonces, a lo lejos, divisan otra mayor que sí es la suya y emprenden un nuevo viaje. Esta segunda montaña les ofrece la posibilidad de involucrarse con los demás en lugar de centrarse en sí mismos; de adoptar una vida interdependiente en lugar de independiente, y de asumir compromisos profundos.
David Brooks explica en La segunda montaña que la esencia de una vida con sentido es el compromiso con la familia, con una vocación, con una fe o filosofía y con la comunidad. Su inspiradora prosa nos invita a re?exionar sobre la importancia de crear relaciones en las que la solidaridad, el amor y la corresponsabilidad primen sobre la independencia individual. Esta obra sugerente, aguda y enriquecedora nos ayudará a descubrir el sentido de nuestra vida y nuestra misión en la tierra.
'Een must-read in tijden van sociale distantie en nieuwe gemeenschapszin.' - Trouw
'Een overtuigend pleidooi.' **** NRC Handelsblad
Sta jij op je eerste of tweede berg? Draait het leven om jou – of om anderen? Gaat het om succes – of om betekenis? We leven in een wereld die ons vertelt dat we vooral persoonlijk geluk moeten nastreven: carrière maken, succes hebben en mooie spullen verzamelen. Dit is wat David Brooks de zogenaamde ‘eerste berg’ noemt die we vaak allemaal bewandelen. Maar als we op die top zijn aangekomen, of eraf zijn gevallen door bijvoorbeeld een ontslag of een verlies, kunnen we tot de ontdekking komen dat dát ons niet daadwerkelijk gelukkig maakt. We gaan verlangen naar dingen die er echt toe doen. Dat is het moment waarop je de tweede berg beklimt.
Op de tweede berg draait het niet meer om jezelf, maar om jouw relatie met anderen. Het gaat om een betekenisvol leven. David Brooks onderzoekt hoe je een waardevol leven kunt leiden in een egocentrische maatschappij. Wat betekent het om verder te kijken dan jezelf en je op een groter doel te richten? Om onafhankelijkheid los te laten en afhankelijkheid te omarmen? Hij richt zich hierbij op vier belangrijke pijlers die je helpen met het beklimmen van die tweede berg: een verbintenis aangaan met familie, met een roeping, met een gemeenschap of met een filosofie of geloof.
De tweede berg is een inspirerend en persoonlijk boek dat je helpt te ontdekken hoe jij ook een rijk en voldaan leven kunt leiden.
'Een krachtig, indringend boek dat je niet meer loslaat.' The Guardian
David Brooks (1961) is auteur en al jaren een van de best gelezen columnisten van The New York Times. Hij heeft meerdere bestsellers geschreven, waaronder The Road to Character. Hij geeft les aan Yale University en is lid van de American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
‘Zijn columns staan steevast dagenlang op nummer een van bestgelezen stukken van de website van The New York Times. Hij is te horen en zien in vele populaire podcasts, radio- en tv-programma’s. Als de VS een ‘Denker des Vaderlands’ had, zou Brooks goede kans maken.’ NRC Handelsblad
'Zeer ontroerend en buitengewoon scherp. En hoopvol in de beste zin van het woord.' The Washington Post
'Lessen die mogelijk je leven veranderen zijn te vinden in dit relevante boek dat je aanzet tot nadenken.' Booklist
'Het beste boek van Brooks ooit. Krachtig. Zijn inspirerende boek is een zelfhulpgids om de gevangenis van jezelf te ontvluchten.' The Observer
'Het is de gave van David Brooks om taai maar overtuigend sociaal onderzoek toegankelijk en zelfs verrassend te maken.' The New York Times Book Review
'Brooks haalt een breed scala aan wetenschappers en denkers aan om een idee te weven dat groter is dan de som der delen.' USA Today
'Brooks grootse prestatie zit in zijn vermogen om de ongeziene aspecten van privé-ervaringen te verheffen tot een krachtig en uitdagend gesprek over wat we allemaal met elkaar delen.
Aber macht sie uns auch zu wertvollen Persönlichkeiten?
Nein, sagt David Brooks. Vielmehr müssen wir wieder lernen, die Welt nicht zu erobern, sondern uns ihr zu verpflichten. Der amerikanische Bestseller-Autor folgt damit der Spur einer großen moralischen Tradition und beweist, dass wir alle nur gewinnen können, wenn wir eine einfache Wahrheit verinnerlichen: Willst du dich selbst verwirklichen, musst du dich auch selbst vergessen können.
Eine packende Lektüre für alle, die der oberflächlichen Selfie-Kultur überdrüssig sind.
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