But our culture and our educational systems spend more time teaching the skills and strategies you need for career. Joseph soloveitchik has called these selves adam i and adam ii brooks asks.
Should You Live For Your Resume Or Your Eulogy
Resume vs eulogy virtues. Interesting to think about. How different would we live our lives if instead of handing out resumes we handed out eulogies. The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. September 26 2014 at 1032 am. As a stay at home mom my resume virtues dwindle by the day but my eulogy virtues grow. I love the idea of resume virtues vs eulogy virtues.
We all know that the eulogy virtues are more important than the résumé ones. I do remember at both my grandfathers funerals both eulogy and resume virtues were mentioned. Can we balance these two selves. As brooks says resume virtues are about career success and eulogy virtues are about your inner light and inner character including qualities like kindness honesty with self and with others maturity and capacity to love. One was a fire captain the other a business executive. The moral bucket list developed the concept that there are two sets of virtues the résumé virtues and the eulogy virtues.
The self who craves success who builds a résumé and the self who seeks connection community love the values that make for a great eulogy. Within each of us are two selves suggests david brooks in this meditative short talk. I think eulogy virtues are what maya angelou is referring to by how you make people feel. March 22 2017 by ty bennett.
Gallery of Resume Vs Eulogy Virtues
