How many from outside of washington . How many had never been to the book festival before . How many have been to all 19 of them . Wow. Okay. Were going to have a very interesting conversation today with one of the countries leading i was a intellectuals and columnists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is the Second Mountain. How many people have read this book at . Come people are going to read this after its over . , okay. How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today. Okay. So david, thanks for doing this. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which ive read and think its a very good book. I like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . The lower side of new york. My parents were somewhat leftwing. So thel story tell about my childhood is when i was identically, this is, this is in the late 60s,s where hippies would go just to be. One of the things they did was they would set a garbage can on fire and they thre
Leading eye with the intellectuals and colonists and tv commentators and authors. His new book is tonight. How may people have read this book . How many people are goingan to read it after this is over . How many people are going to get autographed copy from david brooks today . So david, thanks for doing th. Before we go into this book, the Second Mountain which have read and its a very good book, will go through it id like to go through about your background. You grew up in new york . Lower side of new york. About, hippies would go just to be. And one of the things they did was they threw their they put the garage can garbage can on fire, i saw 5dollar bill in garbage can and i reached in the fire and grabbed money and ran away. That was my first step to the right. At age 8i read a book calling paddington the bear and decided that i wanted to become a writer and ive been writing pretty much every day since and in high school i wanted to date a woman named bernice and she wanted to da
With oneeading intellectuals and commentators, his new book is the Second Mountains, how many people read this book yet . Okay . How many are going to read after this is over . Okay. How many people are going to get an autographed copy from david today. Okay so david thanks for doing this. So lets go before we go to this book Second Mountains which i have read, i would like to go a little bit about your background. You grew up in new york . I grew up in the lower side of new york and my parents were somewhat left wing, so the story i tell about my childhood is when i was five, and they took me to it a place where hippies would go to be. Im one of things they did is they would set a garbage can on fire and they with their their wallets in it to just show about how much they little they cared about money and material things. And i saw 5dollar bill in the garbage can and i reached in and grab for a breach in the fire, and grabbed the money and ran away that was my first step to the right.
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Face of the earth and i might have been the most emotionally person in the city, writing book about [laughter] but neuroscience is showing, patients had legislations in the brain and could not experience emotions and you would think that they were super smart, in fact, they couldnt function in life because emotion is not the opposite of reason, emotion is the value device that tells us what we want, the foundation of reason and so people who are emotionally intelligent are also intellectually intelligent, the two go together. So i really we wanted to write about how we educate through art and literature and how we refine our emotional life through relationship with one another. In the course of writing the book and this is years ago now taylor swift was on 60 minutes and she was asked, you write a lot of sad songs, actually 23 different kinds of sadness, your boyfriend dumps you sadness and lose your dog different set of tune, your mom is mad at you is different set of tune. If youre a