The Road to Character
David Brooks
12 people recommended it in 8 threads, 2015–2025.
3 commenters pushed back on it — worth reading the threads.
What people on Hacker News said
Focuses on the deeper values that should inform our lives. Responding to what he calls the culture of the Big Me, which emphasizes external success, Brooks challenges us, and himself, to rebalance the scales between our “résumé virtues”—achieving wealth, fame, and status—and our “eulogy virtues,” those that exist at the core of our being: kindness, bravery, honesty, or faithfulness, focusing on what kind of relationships we have formed.
A book that made me very introspective was David Brook's The Road To Character . It made me ask my self a lot of questions which I have documented here https://www.deepthoughtapp.com/packages/55/david-brooks-humility-code-from-the-road-to-character/
It's a great reality check, poking into human nature, morality, suffering, all with real life examples and littlz tolerance for bullshit without delusion of grandeur.
As for as books from the past decade go David Brooks' The Road to Character was pretty good.
Where it comes up
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