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With unequaled information and brio, David Brooks, the New York Times columnist and best-selling author of Bobos in Paradise, has long explored and described just how we live. Now, with the intellectual curiosity and emotional wisdom that produce his columns among the most read in the nation, Brooks transforms to the inspiration of human being flourishing in a multilayered, profoundly illuminating work grounded in everyday living. This is the report of how success happens. It really is informed through the lives of 1 composite American couple, Harold and Erica - how they grow, push ahead, are pulled again, fail, and do well. Distilling a vast array of information into these two vividly realized character types, Brooks illustrates a fundamental new understanding of human aspect. A scientific trend has took place - we've discovered more about the human brain within the last 30 years than we'd in the previous 3,000. The unconscious brain, as it happens, is the majority of the mind - not really a dark, vestigial place but an innovative and enchanted one, where the majority of the brain's work gets done. This is the realm of thoughts, intuitions, biases, longings, genetic predispositions, personality features, and communal norms: the world where figure is formed and where our most significant life decisions are made. The natural habitat of The Sociable Animal. Drawing on an abundance of current research from numerous disciplines, Brooks can take Harold and Erica from infancy to university; from the "odyssey years" that have come to define young adulthood to the high wall space of poverty; from the type of connection, love, and dedication, to the type of effective authority. He shows the deeply communal aspect of our very brains 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.
