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Druhá hora


Ak je prvá hora o budovaní ega a definovaní vlastnej identity, tá druhá je o vzdávaní sa vlastného ja. Na prvej hore musíte byť ambiciózni, strategickí a nezávislí. Na druhej hore budujete hlboké vzťahy a robíte dlhodobé záväzky dôvery a vytrvalosti. Ak je prvá hora o získavaní, druhá hora je o prispievaní. Druhá hora nie je opakom tej prvej. Vyjsť na druhú horu neznamená odmietnuť prvú horu. Je to nová cesta - zmysluplnejšia fáza života. Na druhú horu sa lezie úplne inak, ako na tú prvú. Prvú horu dobývate. Identifikujete vrchol, určíte smer a škriabete sa nahor. Ale vaša druhá hora dobýva vás. Podľahnete volaniu niečoho ci Niekoho iného... David Brooks
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Spoločenské zviera


"Koľko kníh už bolo napísaných o úspechu! Obvykle však neprenikajú pod povrch skutočných tajomstiev života. Toto rozprávanie chce byť hlbšie. Je to príbeh o úspechu, v ktorom ide o vnútorné nastavenie - podvedomé emócie, túžby, predsudky, genetické predispozície, povahové črty a spoločenské normy. Zaujíma nás to miesto, kde sa rodí zdravý sedliacky rozum a dobrý charakter. Gréci hovorili, že človek si cestu k múdrosti musí odtrpieť. Ale naše podvedomie nie je len ponurým miestom strachu a bolesti. Je aj bodom dotyku ľudských duší a hromadí sa v ňom múdrosť vekov. Nepokúšam sa pomenovať úlohu, ktorú v tom má Boh. No ak existuje božská kreatívna sila, predstavujem si, že pôsobí práve tam, kde mozgová hmota produkuje emócie a láska vytvára celkom nové neurónové spojenia..." David Brooks
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Druhá hora


Novinár David Brooks vo svojej knihe Druhá hora píše, že ak je prvá hora o ­budovaní ega a­ definovaní vlastnej identity, tá druhá je o ­vzdávaní sa vlastného ja. Na prvej hore musíte byť ambiciózni, strategickí a nezávislí. Na druhej hore budujete hlboké vzťahy a ­robíte dlhodobé záväzky dôvery a vytrvalosti. Ak je prvá hora o získavaní, druhá hora je o prispievaní. Druhá hora nie je opakom tej prvej. Vyjsť na druhú horu neznamená odmietnuť prvú horu. Je to nová cesta – zmysluplnejšia fáza života. Na druhú horu sa lezie úplne inak, ako na tú prvú. Prvú horu dobývate. Identifikujete vrchol, určíte smer a škriabete sa nahor. Ale vaša druhá hora dobýva vás. Podľahnete volaniu niečoho ci Niekoho iného…
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How To Know a Person


A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character and The Second Mountain 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.
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On Paradise Drive


Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber, superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids, and suburban chain restaurants, which if they merged would be called Chili's Olive Garden Hard Rock Outback Cantina. Are we as shallow as we look? Many around the world see us as the great bimbos. Sure, Americans work hard and are energetic, but that is because we are money-hungry and don't know how to relax. But if you probe deeper, you find that we behave the way we do because we live under the spell of paradise. We are the inheritors of a sense of limitless possibilities, raised to think in the future tense and to strive toward the happiness we naturally accept. On Paradise Drive, at once serious and comic, describes this distinct American future-mindedness that shapes our personalities and underlies our beliefs.
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A társas lény


Korunk egyik legfontosabb és egyben leglebilincselőbb írása alapjaiban változtatja meg társas életünket, és a magunkról, illetve a világról alkotott felfogásunkat. Rávilágít, hogy a tudatalattink egy kreatív és elvarázsolt hely. Az érzelmek, az intuíciók, a vágyak és a társas normák birodalma, ahol kialakul személyiségünk és ahol életünk legfontosabb döntései születnek. A tudatalatti "A társas lény" természetes lakóhelye. David Brooks könyve egy amerikai álompár életén keresztül mutatja be azt, ahogyan élünk. Temérdek hasznos információ és élénken megrajzolt figura segítségével ábrázolja az emberi természet újonnan felfedezett dimenzióinak legrejtettebb zugait. A két főszereplő életét csecsemőkorától kísérhetjük végig a kötődés, a szerelem és az elköteleződés útján, míg végül sikeres vezetők válnak belőlük. A szerző lerombolja a siker konvencionális definícióit miközben egy egészen új, a bizalomra és az alázatosságra épülő kultúra vízióját tárja elénk.
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The Social Animal


#1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER 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."
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The Road to Character


This book is number 1 New York Times Bestseller. 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. We all possess two natures. One focuses on external success: wealth, fame, status and a great career. The other aims for internal goodness, driven by a spiritual urge not only to do good but to be good - honest, loving and steadfast. The inner self doesn't seek happiness superficially defined; it seeks emotional commitments without counting the cost, and a deeper moral joy. Individuals and societies thrive when a general balance is struck between these two imperatives, but we live in a culture that encourages us to think about the external side of our natures rather than the inner self. We hanker for praise instead of following our hearts, and we self-promote rather than confront our weaknesses. In this urgent and eye-opening book, David Brooks asks us to confront the meaning of true fulfilment. A famous columnist for The New York Times and best-selling author, Brooks found himself living in a shallow mode. For years, he remained focused on getting ahead and reaping the rewards for his efforts, placing his career before his character. Finding himself at a crossroads, Brooks sought out men and women who embodied the moral courage he longed to experience. Citing an array of history's greatest thinkers and leaders - from St. Augustine and George Eliot to Dwight Eisenhower and Samuel Johnson - he traces how they were able to face their weaknesses and transcend their flaws. Each one of them chose to embrace one simple but counterintuitive truth: in order to fulfil yourself, you must learn how to forget yourself. An elegant interweaving of politics, spirituality and psychology, The Road to Character proves that it is how we want to be remembered - and not what we put on our CVs - that truly matters.
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Cesta k charakteru


„Když jsem knihu psal, nebyl jsem si jistý, zdá dokážu jít po cestě k charakteru, ale chtěl jsem alespoň zjistit, jak vypadá a jak ji přede mnou vyšlapali jiní.“ – David Brooks David Brooks již nějakou dobu přináší do našich každodenních životů poznání, překvapivé informace a originální pohled na svět, a to jak prostřednictvím svého sloupku v New York Times, tak i v podobě několika bestsellerů. V knize Společenský tvor se zabývá neuro-vědeckým pohledem na lidskou komunikaci a ukazuje, že společně toho dokážeme mnohem víc. Nyní se v knize Cesta k charakteru zaměřuje na hlubší hodnoty, které by měly být samotným základem našich životů. Reaguje na fenomén, který nazývá „kultura velkého já“ a který klade důraz na vnější úspěch. Vyzývá nás i sebe samotného k novému pokusu změnit rovnováhu mezi hodnotami spojenými s úspěchem, jako je bohatství, sláva a postavení, a hlubšími ctnostmi, mezi které patří laskavost, odvaha, pravdomluvnost nebo věrnost. Ty nejlépe poznáme, podíváme-li se kriticky na vztahy, které jsme vybudovali. Brooks čerpá z odkazu mnoha velkých myslitelů a inspirativních vůdčích osobností a ukazuje, že si tito velikáni díky vnitřnímu boji a tím, že znali hranice svých schopností, vybudovali silný vnitřní charakter. Frances Perkinsová, která se angažovala v hnutí pracujících, chápala, že aby mohla sloužit vyšším ideálům, musí potlačit část své osobnosti. Dwight Eisenhower řídil svůj život nikoliv na základě impulzivní touhy po sebevyjádření, ale s důrazem na uvědomělou sebekázeň. Dorothy Day, oddaná katolička a bojovnice za práva chudých, poznala jako mladá žena sílu prostoty a odevzdanosti. A. Philip Randolph a Bayard Rustin, průkopníci v oblasti občanských práv, si uvědomovali hodnotu zdrženlivosti a ukázněnosti, stejně jako potřeby pochybovat o sobě samém i v případě, že bojujeme za vznešenou věc. Cesta k charakteru v sobě mísí psychologii, politiku, spiritualitu a osobní zpověď. Dává nám příležitost přehodnotit své priority a usilovat o bohatší vnitřní život plný pokory a morálního bohatství. David Brooks píše: „Radost je vedlejší produkt, kterého se dostává lidem usilujícím o něco jiného. Přesto však přijde.“
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Společenské zvíře: Skryté zdroje lásky, charakteru a úspěchu


Americký novinář a komentátor David Brooks již dlouho s nebývalým přehledem a rázností zkoumá způsob, jakým žijeme. Kniha boří zažité definice úspěchu a předkládá nám vizi kultury založené na důvěře a pokoře. V knize Společenský tvor rozebírá lidskou komunikaci a ukazuje, že společně toho dokážeme více. Najdeme zde působivé myšlenkové dobrodružství, příběh o úspěchu a také obhajobu pokroku. Po přečtení této knihy ji britský premiér David Cameroon doporučil všem členům svého kabinetu.
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Road to Character


The No. 1 New York Times bestseller on the secret to leading a good life We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us? David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status is eroding our ability to create meaningful inner lives. To show us how to live better, he looks at people whose sense of humility was fundamental to their success. What they all understood was a simple but counterintuitive truth: in order to fulfil yourself, you must learn how to forget yourself.
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The Second Mountain


DEBUTED AT NO.1 ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LIST NO.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.
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The Second Mountain


Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about yourself or others? Are you self-improving or committed? Mainstream culture teaches us that human beings pursue our self-interest - money, power, fame. But at some point in our life we might discover that we're not interested in what other people tell us to want. We want to want the things that are truly worthy of wanting. At this point, you have moved to your second mountain. What does it mean to elevate your desires, to look beyond consumption 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 want 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 is the start of a deeper journey into the world.
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#1 "NEW YORK TIMES "BESTSELLER 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."
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