“We spend our life wishing for too little we need to step outside of ourselves. Caring for one another is important, and he quoted Annie Dillard about “our inexplicable care for each other.” “Deep in yourself is a highway right out of self,” he said. Souls are all infinite and equal.”īrooks encouraged the audience to learn how to be good at building deep relationships, to practice radical hospitality and mutuality, and to overinvest in friendship. We’re morally responsible for what we do, which gives us equality. We have a yearning soul and a need to protect other souls. “When you see deeper into yourself, only emotional and spiritual food will feed those cavities. “Other people get broken open, and a community is people joined by what they love,” Brooks said. Some people become incapable of being open to others, which leads to tribalism, or association based on mutual hatred of something or someone.

“You can be broken or you can be broken open,” Brooks said. An unattached person is not connected to anything. While political freedom is good, social freedom is not. The worst lie: People who have achieved more are worth more. You are what you accomplish and what brands you attach yourself to. We experience that intensity as children, but the emphasis on good grades and achievement lessens it, and students think their parents value grades more than becoming a good person and developing character.īrooks identified lies our society tell us: “We want to do something that is hard, something worth wanting,” he said. David Brooks believes we want intensity in life more than happiness.

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