The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life
- The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life Hardcover
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER â€¢ Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author ofÂ The Road to CharacterÂ explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.

â€œDeeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.â€â€”The Washington Post

Every so often, you meet people who radiate joyâ€”who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view . . . unsatisfying. They realize: This wasnâ€™t my mountain after all. Thereâ€™s another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain.

And so they embark on a new journey. On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth wanting, not the things other people tell them to want. They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They surrender to a life of commitment.

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose.

In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But itâ€™s also a provocative social commentary. We live in a society, Brooks argues, that celebrates freedom, that tells us to be true to ourselves, at the expense of surrendering to a cause, rooting ourselves in a neighborhood, binding ourselves to others by social solidarity and love. We have taken individualism to the extremeâ€”and in the process we have torn the social fabric in a thousand different ways. The path to repair is through making deeper commitments. In The Second Mountain, Brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives.
Country USA
Brand RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Manufacturer Random House
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 0812993268_used
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2019-04-16
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812993264

Country	USA
Brand	RANDOM HOUSE GROUP
Manufacturer	Random House
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	0812993268_used
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2019-04-16
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812993264

The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

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