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Does the Road to Character lead anywhere?

One of the basic ideas the writer tried to get across is that we (humans) are too excited by things, and not excited enough by grace. It's our resume versus our eulogy, and which is more important to us. Something that may be difficult to embrace in our world. If you want to be successful, you need to be strong, emphatic and blow your own horn. Ten biographical sketches, highlighting various (or infamous) persons who shine in a certain way...more eulogy than resume. Military men, football players and rabble-rousers all show through their lives how a person can do, and be more than the sum of their accomplishments. More than one person in the group felt that the author may have been wanting to write a "Christian" book, but wanted it to be accessible and appeal to a wider audience. Yet he includes a sketch of St. Augustine, and how he chose his faith over success. Maybe this is meant to be a moralistic take on how to live our lives, and gain some perspective on what matters in the world, rather than a "roadmap" to becoming a moral or successful person. These are important aspects of human personality, and are harder to cultivate that the drive to achieve may be. Brooks wants us to consider that our moral lives are just as important as our physical ones.     

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