The Social Animal The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement

David Brooks

eBook - 2011

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWith unequaled insight and brio, New York Times columnist David Brooks has long explored and explained the way we live. Now Brooks turns to the building blocks of human flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday life. This is the story of how success happens, told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica. Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to old age, illustrating a fundamental new understanding of human nature along the way: The unconscious mind, it turns out, is not a dark, vestigial place, but a creative one, where most of the brain’s work gets done. This is the realm w...here character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made—the natural habitat of The Social Animal. Brooks reveals the deeply social aspect of our minds and exposes the bias in modern...

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Published
Random House Publishing Group
Language
English
Main Author
David Brooks
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Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
Kindle Book
ASINB004IK8PFK
Release Date3/8/2011
OverDrive Read eBook
ISBN9780679603931
Release Date3/8/2011