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David Brooks Quotes

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“When you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you’ll settle it by flipping a coin. But don’t go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?”
— David Brooks, Commencement Address at Rice University, 2011
Tagged: Graduation, Speech, Commencement, Advice, Good Advice, Widsom
“Create an entourage of heroes. Put their pictures on your wall, and keep them in your mind.”
— David Brooks, Commencement Address at Wake Forest University, 2007
Tagged: Commencement, Graduation, Speech
“If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don’t have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don’t have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards and special drills and tutorials to hone their kids into perfect achievement machines don’t have any effect at all. Instead, parents just have to be good enough. They have to provide their kids with stable and predictable rhythms. They need to be able to fall in tune with their kids’ needs, combining warmth and discipline. They need to establish the secure emotional bonds that kids can fall back upon in the face of stress. They need to be there to provide living examples of how to cope with the problems of the world so that their children can develop unconscious models in their heads.”
— David Brooks, The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
Tagged: How To Think, The Art of Awareness, Psychology, Philosophy
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