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Tag Archives: David Brooks
The Other-Directed Personality
David Brooks hits another one out of the ballpark in his article about Mitt Romney: The Crowd Pleaser.
In the article, Brooks talks about how Mitt Romney rarely talks about his roots, where he comes from, or his family history. Mitt never had an industry that he fell in love with, choosing instead to invest in diverse industries and to specialize in “management of management.” Mitt seems to be pure marketing and sales, and many people, including conservative pundits, think that maybe that’s all there is to him.
Highlighted Comment on David Brooks’s Article
Check out David Brooks’s column: It’s Not About You. David Brooks is my favorite NY Times columnist.
Then check out my comment, which got highlighted! “Highlighted” means that it’s one of the more interesting comments, and it therefore goes to the front page of the comments. Woo hoo! And I commented with a book that a reader recommended, on a topic that we’ve been discussing lots at bigWOWO: Education.
Anyway, my comment to David Brooks is below. Check out the original article, and sound off to my sound off if you so please!
David,
Great Essays/Articles from 2010: Brooks’s Sidney Awards
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: David Brooks is my favorite opinion columnist. If you have extra time in the next week, check out the essays and articles that he recommends in his 2010 Sidney Awards. Here are the ones I’ve read:
1. The End of Men by Hanna Rosin. Essay in the Atlantic that discusses how women are now the majority in the American workforce, are getting college degrees at a higher rate than men, and are poised to overtake men in other areas. Rosin discusses whether women have talents that are more relevant in the modern workforce. She brings out a lot of the points that I brought out in my last days on the 44s. (Man, I was just ahead of my time!)
Activist to Writer or Writer to Activist?
David Brooks has an excellent tribute to Leo Tolstoy here. Tolstoy started as a writer and became his own activist, unlike the opposite path that many people today take. As Brooks astutely remarks, the gifted writer Tolstoy observed and was noted for being able to describe his observations. The activist “tried to heal the world directly.” In Tolstoy’s case, the writer was more successful.
David Brooks: Well Planned vs. Summoned
David Brooks nails it again. The guy is a national treasure.
In his latest column, he writes about two different ways in which people plan their lives. The first he calls the Well-Planned Life, and he references this article by Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen (It’s a brilliant piece in itself, so please check it out. Actually, I was thinking of blogging about this article by itself, but time constraints are preventing me. I might do it in the future. Maybe. No promises.). Christensen planned his own life by spending an hour a day thinking about “why God put [him] on this earth.” Through dedicated effort, he found his purpose. Brooks correlates this mindset with Christensen’s Christianity. This to me was very interesting since Kobukson recently spoke about how Christianity affects culture.
Internet vs. Books
David Brooks, my favorite NY Times columnist, hits it again in his latest: The Medium is the Medium. I strongly suggest reading this piece. In this column, he talks about how the internet is good for disseminating information and keeping you informed, while books are a superior vehicle for developing an individual mind, much because of the fact that the internet shuns hierarchy, while books force a reader to defer to the wisdom of an author.
The Internet helps you become well informed — knowledgeable about current events, the latest controversies and important trends. The Internet also helps you become hip — to learn about what’s going on, as Epstein writes, “in those lively waters outside the boring mainstream.”
The Big Shaggy
Excellent article by David Brooks here. It’s about how people tend to forego education in the humanities when the economy is down. Brooks, however, makes a compelling case for why the humanities are still important and relevant in the world today. He writes about how the humanities teach you to communicate, how they teach you the language of emotion, how they help you to understand analogies, and how they put you in touch with the “Big Shaggy,” that human inner beast that causes people to do crazy things. I’m not sure why Brooks named the beast after a character from Scooby Doo, but it works for me. It reminds me a bit of the Hairy Man from Iron John. If that’s where it comes from, I wonder if the imagery is or should be the same for women.
Posted in Asian American, Education, Knowledge, Strategy, Writing
Tagged David Brooks, humanities
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Money or Love?
This is one of those topics that I’ve been thinking about to the point that all my thoughts are garbled.
David Brooks wrote this column last week, writing about Sandra Bullock, who won an Academy Award and very soon after found out that her husband Jesse James was cheating on her. The question, as Brooks poses it, is this:
“Would you exchange a tremendous professional triumph for a severe personal blow?”
Posterity and Asian Americans
[pic from randplaty, attributed to dasasaki. randplaty looks like a church blog (and you know my views on that), but it also looks like he has some very interesting views on church and culture. I actually had some similar questions, which maybe we can discuss in the future. The religious/political web we weave...]
I’ve been meaning to post this for a while now. Thanks to everyone who is still coming here, even though I post less frequently. If it gets annoying with the slow, disconnected entries, feel free to add me to your RSS reader. And don’t worry, I will eventually be back full swing with the fighting dialogue.
Posted in Asian American, Features
Tagged Asian American, community, David Brooks, eunuchs, interracial dating, IR
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The Good, the Exciting, and the Dull
With a crying infant and a growing toddler, I’ve been suffering from severe sleep deprivation, which means that I’m finding it hard to think on my own. Creativity? Gone. Writing? On hiatus. Dreaming? How do you dream when you never sleep? So these days it makes me happy when someone does my thinking for me.
Posted in Features
Tagged Activism, Asian American, David Brooks, finances, leadership
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