Second Mountain

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Are you on your first or second mountain?
Is life about you - or others?
About success - or something deeper?

Theworld tells us that we should pursue our self-interest: career wins,high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. Butat some point in our lives we might find that we're not interested inwhat other people tell us to want. We want the things that are trulyworth wanting.

This is the second mountain.

What does itmean to look beyond yourself and find a moral cause? To forget aboutindependence and discover dependence - to be utterly enmeshed in a webof warm relationships? What does it mean to value intimacy, devotion,responsibility and commitment above individual freedom? In The Second MountainDavid Brooks explores the meaning and possibilities that scaling asecond mountain offer us and the four commitments that most commonlymove us there: family, vocation, philosophy and community. Inspiring,personal and full of joy, this book will help you discover why you werereally put on this earth.