I am currently reading a powerful book. Road to Character by David Brooks is a thoughtful piece of work. It hits you right away in the first couple of lines. Brooks writes :
” The résumé virtues are the ones you list on your résumé, the skills that you bring to the job market and that contribute to external success. The eulogy virtues are deeper. They’re the virtues that get talked about at your funeral, the ones that exist at the core of your being—whether you are kind, brave, honest or faithful; what kind of relationships you formed. Most of us would say that the eulogy virtues are more important than the résumé virtues, but I confess that for long stretches of my life I’ve spent more time thinking about the latter than the former.”
What virtues do you want to be remembered for? What virtues do you spend your days thinking about? What virtues do you spend time working on?
Have a great Saturday…