第二座山 | The Second Mountain by David Brooks mobi epub azw3 pdf audiobook 英文电子书有声书音频下载

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Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The best-selling author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/1590.html

Every so often, you meet people who radiate joy - who seem to know why they were put on this earth, who glow with a kind of inner light. Life, for these people, has often followed what we might think of as a two-mountain shape. They get out of school, they start a career, and they begin climbing the mountain they thought they were meant to climb. Their goals on this first mountain are the ones our culture endorses: to be a success, to make your mark, to experience personal happiness. But when they get to the top of that mountain, something happens. They look around and find the view...unsatisfying. They realize: This wasn’t my mountain after all. There’s another, bigger mountain out there that is actually my mountain. And so they embark on a new journey. 文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/1590.html

On the second mountain, life moves from self-centered to other-centered. They want the things that are truly worth wanting, not the things other people tell them to want. They embrace a life of interdependence, not independence. They surrender to a life of commitment. 文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/1590.html

In The Second Mountain, David Brooks explores the four commitments that define a life of meaning and purpose: to a spouse and family, to a vocation, to a philosophy or faith, and to a community. Our personal fulfillment depends on how well we choose and execute these commitments. Brooks looks at a range of people who have lived joyous, committed lives, and who have embraced the necessity and beauty of dependence. He gathers their wisdom on how to choose a partner, how to pick a vocation, how to live out a philosophy, and how we can begin to integrate our commitments into one overriding purpose. 文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/1590.html

In short, this audiobook is meant to help us all lead more meaningful lives. But it’s also a provocative social commentary. We live in a society, Brooks argues, that celebrates freedom, that tells us to be true to ourselves, at the expense of surrendering to a cause, rooting ourselves in a neighborhood, binding ourselves to others by social solidarity and love. We have taken individualism to the extreme - and in the process we have torn the social fabric in a thousand different ways. The path to repair is through making deeper commitments. In The Second Mountain, Brooks reveals what can happen when we put commitment-making at the center of our lives.文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/1590.html

戴维•布鲁克斯在本书中用令人意想不到的角度深入剖析我们的日常生活。作者提出了“双峰模式”，我们每个人都在攀登人生的两座山。如果说第一座山是关乎构建自我和定义自我的，那么第二座山则是关乎摆脱自我和舍弃自我的。如果说第一座山是关乎获取的，那么第二座山则是关乎奉献的。如果第一座山是精英式的独自攀登，那第二座山则是置身于有需要的人之间，并与他们手携手同行。文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/1590.html

作者认为，如何判断你是处在第一座山还是第二座山的关键是，你的终极诉求何在？是外在之物，还是自身名利？攀登第二座山的方式，不同于攀登第一座山的方式。征服第一座山后，辨认第二座山的峰顶，然后朝它前进。你已被你的第二座山征服了。你屈服于某些召唤，你竭尽所能，回应召唤，解决面临的问题或不公正。在第一座山上，你雄心勃勃，高瞻远瞩。到第二座山上时，你已倾向于亲密、无私和奉献。第二座山上的人，过着更宏大的生活，激活了内...文章源自：力哥爱英语（ienglish521.com）力哥爱英语-https://ienglish521.com/1590.html