David Brooks is an op-ed columnist for The New York Times. He has been a senior editor at The Weekly Standard and a contributing editor at Newsweek and The Atlantic Monthly, and he is a weekly commentator on PBS NewsHour. He is the author of the bestseller Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There and On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (And Always Have) in the Future Tense.
With unequaled insight and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and bestselling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and explained the way we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that make his columns among the most read in the nation, 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. It is told through the lives of one composite American couple, Harold and Erica—how they grow, push forward, are pulled back, fail, and succeed. Distilling a vast array of information into these two vividly realized characters, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human nature. A scientific revolution has occurred—we have learned more about the human brain in the last thirty years than we had in the previous three thousand. The unconscious mind, it turns out, is most of the mind—not a dark, vestigial place but a creative and enchanted one, where most of the brain's work gets done. This is the realm of emotions, intuitions, biases, longings, genetic predispositions, personality traits, and social norms: the realm where character is formed and where our most important life decisions are made. The natural habitat of The Social Animal.
Drawing on a wealth of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks takes Harold and Erica from infancy to school; from the "odyssey years" that have come to define young adulthood to the high walls of poverty; from the nature of attachment, love, and commitment, to the nature of effective leadership. He reveals the deeply social aspect of our very minds and exposes the bias in modern culture that overemphasizes rationalism, individualism, and IQ. Along the way, he demolishes conventional definitions of success while looking toward a culture based on trust and humility.
The Social Animal is a moving and nuanced intellectual adventure, a story of achievement and a defense of progress. Impossible to put down, it is an essential book for our time, one that will have broad social impact and will change the way we see ourselves and the world.
荣格曾经说过,人肯定需要普遍性的理念和信条,以赋予自己的人生以意义,并借以找到自己在世界中的位置。如果他确信这些理念和信条有意义,则能够忍受最惊人的苦难,而如果他在承受住自己的所有不幸之后,不得不承认自己的追求不过是痴人说梦,则他会被压垮。 《社会动物》这...
评分在华府一次新书发布会上,我第一次见到布鲁克斯。那时他已不再年轻,显出几分老相。可待他张口发言,那富有磁性的嗓音立刻吸引了全场听众——尤其是女性听众。作为《纽约时报》的专栏作家,布鲁克斯嘴皮子顺溜,笔头子更犀利,擅长在有限的篇幅内点明时局。 像有时...
评分戴维•布鲁克斯的《社会动物》是很有意思的一本书,除了精致封面的抓人眼球,简单的故事内容包含丰富内核,时不时的能够给你带来一些惊喜,并且为我们提供一个革新的成功学概念——潜意识的成功学。 作者通过刻画生活在一个群体的社会的两个角色——男人哈罗德与女人埃丽卡...
评分 评分畅销书这个概念似乎也是舶来品。要是听到某书蝉联一些声名显赫的排行榜数周,想必很多人对这本书都有一窥真容的欲望。畅销书也有一些共通的特质,比如很符合当下社会时代背景,引述热门话题、人物;书中抛出的道理都像是从你生活中自然衍生出来的,读者不会有陌生感,看完全书...
The unconsciousness rules throughout our whole life.
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评分好有趣!
评分所谓的虚构人物看来不是什么大问题,反正不是小说,当个discovery channel的科普片看看,省得每个故事都要额外交代背景。的确广度不错,深度那是绝对的没有。也是有点炫耀自己读书多的感觉,嘿嘿,和选择性包括一些方面的证据,忽略另外一些。另外感觉是不是政治不太正确啊。总体还好。
评分乍一看很科普,其实就是“我什么都知道……一点”先生。
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