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David Brooks: The Road to Character

Oprah's Super Soul

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The Road to Character

"I have to work harder than most people to avoid a life of smug, superficiality," he says. "How do you get that inner light? I just wanted to know examples of people who like at 20, they didn't have it, but by 70, they had it?" He was inspired after hearing Bing Crosby's self-puffing victory dance on VJ Day in World War II. The book is called "The road to character."

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