David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
David Brooks: David Brooks: Dovreste vivere per il vostro CV ... o per il vostro elogio?
Writer and thinker David Brooks has covered business, crime and politics over a long career in journalism. Full bio
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a riflettere sulla differenza tra
the eulogy virtues.
e le virtù da elogio.
ones you put on your résumé,
che si scrivono sul CV,
you bring to the marketplace.
che si apportano al mondo del lavoro.
in your depth,
nella vostra interiorità,
coerenti?
me, would say
direbbe
more important of the virtues.
le virtù più importanti.
are they the ones that
sono quelle
And the answer is no.
E la risposta è no.
helped me think about it
a rifletterci su
un rabbino
Lonely Man Of Faith" in 1965.
"The Lonely Man of Faith" nel 1965.
due lati della nostra natura,
and Adam II.
create companies,
fondare aziende,
side of our nature.
della nostra natura.
to do good but to be good,
ma vuole anche essere buono,
e le nostre possibilità.
a calling and obey the world.
e obbedire al mondo.
consistency and strength.
e la forza.
redenzione e ritorno".
that these two sides
che questi due lati
at war with each other.
l'uno contro l'altro.
contrapposizione
e il valore interiore.
I'd say, about these
è il fatto di funzionare
an economic logic:
è una logica economica:
risk leads to reward.
il rischio porta alla ricompensa.
often an inverse logic.
e spesso è una logica inversa.
to something outside yourself
che è esterno
desire to get what you want.
di ottenere ciò che si vuole.
you have to forget yourself.
bisogna dimenticarsi di se stessi.
you have to lose yourself.
bisogna perdersi.
that favors Adam I,
che favorisce Adamo I,
you into a shrewd animal
in animali scaltri
calculating creature
creature fredde e calcolatrici
esiste una differenza
self and your actual self.
e il vero io.
che si vuole,
depth of conviction.
commitment to tasks
per essere portati a termine.
response through history
comune nel corso della storia
una profondità di carattere.
have gone back
le persone sono ritornate
time in their life,
della loro vita,
gravitates in the past
some act of selfishness,
un atto di egoismo,
di superficialità,
dell'autocommiserazione,
a lack of courage.
un mancanza di coraggio.
building on your strengths.
incrementando i punti di forza.
your weaknesses.
combattendo le debolezze.
you find the sin
si trova il peccato
and again through your life,
contro quel peccato,
that suffering,
da quella sofferenza
taught to recognize
and how to combat it.
come batterlo.
with an Adam I mentality
con una mentalità Adamo I
about Adam II.
di esprimerci riguardo all'Adamo II.
e Adamo II così:
can be achieved in our lifetime;
può essere realizzato nel corso della nostra vita;
be saved by hope.
dalla speranza.
beautiful or good makes
o buono ha completamente senso
della storia;
dalla fede.
can be accomplished alone;
per quanto virtuoso,
be saved by love.
dall'amore.
è propriamente virtuoso
or foe as from our own standpoint.
di un nostro amico o nemico
by that final form of love,
da quella forma ultima d'amore,
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
David Brooks - Op-ed columnistWriter and thinker David Brooks has covered business, crime and politics over a long career in journalism.
Why you should listen
David Brooks became an Op-Ed columnist for The New York Times in September 2003. He is currently a commentator on "The PBS Newshour," NPR’s "All Things Considered" and NBC's "Meet the Press."
He is the author of Bobos in Paradise and The Social Animal. In April 2015, he released with his fourth book, The Road to Character, which was a #1 New York Times bestseller.
Brooks also teaches at Yale University, and is a member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.
Born on August 11, 1961 in Toronto, Canada, Brooks graduated a bachelor of history from the University of Chicago in 1983. He became a police reporter for the City News Bureau, a wire service owned jointly by the Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times.
He worked at The Washington Times and then The Wall Street Journal for nine years. His last post at the Journal was as Op-ed Editor. Prior to that, he was posted in Brussels, covering Russia, the Middle East, South Africa and European affairs. His first post at the Journal was as editor of the book review section, and he filled in as the Journal's movie critic.
He also served as a senior editor at The Weekly Standard for 9 years, as well as contributing editor for The Atlantic and Newsweek.
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