A quick story about David Brooks, Bruce Springsteen & You

Shortly after I published the post titled The world is waiting on You, I received an email from a reader in New York telling me that David Brooks just published an article in NY Times on the same topic. It was titled The Power of the Particular (you can see it here). Here’s a little taste: “Don’t [...]

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Unless it moves the human heart part II

“Reason and emotion are not separate and opposed. Reason is nestled upon emotion and dependant on it. Emotion assigns value to things, and reason can only make choices on the basis of those valuations.” That’s not me talking. That’s David Brooks talking in his new book titled The Social Animal. I was thinking about the [...]

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