Aspen Ideas: David Brooks shares his 'modesty manifesto'

New York Times columnist David Brooks
New York Times columnist David Brooks speaks to a packed room at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo., on June, 29, 2011.
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The Aspen Ideas Festival is underway in Aspen, Colorado. Each year, the Aspen Institute brings together some of the nation's brightest and most provocative thinkers and policy makers to discuss and debate key issues of the day.

Today we hear from one of the nation's top syndicated columnists, David Brooks, who spoke to an overflow crowd at Aspen about modesty and how a lack of it is making it much more difficult to solve our nation's problems.

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