Aspen Ideas Festival: David Brooks 'character' speech

New York Times columnist David Brooks
New York Times columnist David Brooks speaks to a packed room at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colorado.
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New York Times columnist and NPR commentator David Brooks said in his 2014 Aspen Ideas Festival lecture that we live in a competitive, technological and publicity-seeking culture. He suggests there are some values that can serve as an antidote or "counter-culture." Those values are honesty, humility, self-control and courage.

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