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Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks and Katie Couric

A New York Times columnist and  regular commentator for NPR, David Brooks says we live in a competitive, technological and publicity-seeking culture, and he suggests there are some values that can serve as an antidote or "counter-culture." Those are honesty, humility, self-control and courage. In his annual lecture at the Aspen Ideas Festival, David Brooks takes aim at what he calls "the happiness culture" and says we need to have deeper and more important goals in life. He says we should separate the "resume virtues" from the "eulogy virtues."

Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks on character

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