Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?

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Should you live for your résumé ... or your eulogy?
Speaker:
David Brooks
Description:

Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love -- the values that make for a great eulogy. (Joseph Soloveitchik has called these selves "Adam I" and "Adam II.") Brooks asks: Can we balance these two selves?

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TEDTalks
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05:01
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