04311cam a2200349 4500 597812852 TxAuBib 20220731120000.0 ||||||s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781984840790 1984840797 6449ddae-29ab-4934-b5eb-ca29b1561cf2 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4127554 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Brooks, David. The Second Mountain [Libby] : The Quest for a Moral Life. Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group, 2019. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 356MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 357MB. Nonfiction. Self-Improvement. Sociology. HTML:<b>#1 <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of&#160;<i>The Road to Character</i>&#160;explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.</b><br /> <br /> <b>“Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive.”—<i>The Washington Post</i></b><br /> <br /> Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy—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 wasn’t my mountain after all. There’s another, bigger mountain out there that is actually <i>my</i> mountain.<br /> <br /> 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.<br /> <br /> In <i>The Second Mountain,</i> 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.<br /> <br /> In short, this book is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But it’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 extreme—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 <i>The Second Mountain,</i> Brooks shows what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives. Philosophy. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-30 20:00:03. Morey, Arthur. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4127554-TheSecondMountain.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6449ddae-29ab-4934-b5eb-ca29b1561cf2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-425/1191-1/4127554-TheSecondMountain.mp3 Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=6449ddae-29ab-4934-b5eb-ca29b1561cf2&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen) T3L