About the book
New York Times columnist David Brooks describes lives that follow a two-mountain shape. On the first mountain, people chase the goals their culture endorses: success, making a mark and personal happiness. Some reach the top, find the view unsatisfying and turn to a second mountain, where life becomes centered on others and built on interdependence and commitment. Brooks names four commitments that give a life meaning: family and a spouse, community, vocation, and a philosophy or faith. From people who have lived joyful, committed lives, he gathers advice on choosing a partner and a vocation, living out a philosophy and joining these commitments into a single purpose. It reached number one on the New York Times best-seller list.
Peter Attia said Brooks's earlier book The Road to Character spoke to him at the hardest moment of his life, and that only halfway through The Second Mountain he could already tell it would have a lasting effect on him.
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Peter Attia (Founder/Attia Medical)
His book, The Road to Character, spoke to me at the most difficult moment of my life, and I can already appreciate, only halfway through it, that, The Second Mountain, will have a lasting impact on me.
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