Character

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The Road to Character

David Brooks, 2015

Medium length, about 320 pages

Résumé virtues versus eulogy virtues, through ten lives.

Talk about it

  1. What is the difference between résumé virtues and eulogy virtues for you?
  2. Which of the ten lives spoke to you most, and why?
  3. Can character be built on purpose, or does it come from what happens to us?

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