you know one of the fallacies of modern
life is that career success leads to
fulfillment and so we all do chase the
great career and a decent amount of
money and some status and some prestige
and it gets you somewhere and I found it
gets you to the spot where you’re not
worried about being a failure but it
doesn’t exactly provide fulfillment and
I found that my own life I’ve achieved
way more career success than I ever
thought I would but it hasn’t really
made me particularly happy and you
certainly meet people around the world
especially in the financial world who
will tell you I’ve achieved success but
not significance and so the story of our
society is that people are very
successful are often still looking for
something else we’ve had a shift in the
culture a shift from a culture of
self-effacement based on the idea that
I’m no better than anybody else but
nobody’s better than me to a culture of
achievement and distinction as the
meritocracy has gotten more pure we’ve
it’s we’ve gotten more competitive and
we’ve based our identity more on what we
can achieve and so it becomes much more
important for us to demonstrate our
achievement and to try to think
achievement can provide moral
fulfillment and as a result we’ve gotten
a lot more expressive we advertise
ourselves we brand ourselves we’ve
gotten a lot bigger about ourselves
believing in our own virtue and trying
to broadcast our own wonderfulness
inside but I think we’ve lost touch with
an older philosophy which was about self
confrontation a belief that while we’re
splendidly and now were also deeply
broken and that the value of life is in
confronting your own brokenness
brokenness and overcoming in the resume
virtues are wouldn’t call the CV virtues
are those that make you good at your job
whether you’re good at math good at
marketing good at teaching the eulogy
virtues are the things they say about
you after you’re dead
whether you’re courageous brave
honorable honest capable of great love
and we all would believe I think that
the eulogy virtues are more important
we’d all rather be remembered for the
things that are deep inside but we live
in a society that puts a lot more
emphasis on the resume or the cv virtues
we’ve school systems that don’t do much
to teach character but do a lot to teach
professional skills we live in a
magazine and self-help book culture
that’s all about external success about
career success
and so you know I’ve spent the last few
years trying to figure out what about
the other side how does how did the how
does character develop how is that
earned and trying to work on those
eulogy virtues characters develop first
three Millett II and humility is not
thinking lowly of yourself it’s radical
self-awareness from a distance it’s
stepping outside yourself and looking in
and seeing where you’re strong but also
especially where you’re weak and then
once you have achieved that humility
it’s a process of self confrontation of
finding your support in your core
weakness and confronting it and trying
to gain gradually and incrementally
better day by day and then you realize
along the way that you can’t achieve
character on your own we all need
redemptive assistance from outside so
it’s ultimately completed when you’re
able to commit to something outside
yourself whether you commit to a
philosophy a vocational of its the
ability to commit over the long period
of time to something very important I
think every career comes with challenges
I happen to be a pundit and so I’m on TV
and radio and my career encourages me to
be a self-important blowhard and so I
have to overcome that some people who
might be in sales they live in a world
of spin and salesmanship they have to
overcome the sincerity of that
politicians live in a world where
they’re broadcasting themselves they’re
selling themselves over all the time
it’s hard to have a soft still voice
inside and so I think each profession
and each lifestyle comes with its own
character challenge and but it’s endemic
in every career no career is pure
probably not even the priesthood or
living in a monastery or something I
found that journaling really helps and I
was of two minds about journaling about
keeping a journal at first I thought it
might encourage a sort of narcissism
that you’re always thinking about
yourself and that’s certainly a danger
but I think when you’re writing for no
one else but yourself that’s the easiest
form in which to be completely honest
about yourself it probably helps to burn
the pages later on humility goes too far
when it becomes complete self-abnegation
and so if you’re a person who’s being
oppressed and you confuse humility with
weakness then it’s gone too far if
you’re oppressed then you need to rise
up in a certain
but I think it’s possible to assert
yourself and also be humbled by by an F
edition because my definition is not
weakness it’s self honesty and we would
say that Martin Luther King was a very
assertive man but he was also very
honest about himself and so I do think
it I think humility is not necessarily weakness but it can turn into weakness
life is that career success leads to
fulfillment and so we all do chase the
great career and a decent amount of
money and some status and some prestige
and it gets you somewhere and I found it
gets you to the spot where you’re not
worried about being a failure but it
doesn’t exactly provide fulfillment and
I found that my own life I’ve achieved
way more career success than I ever
thought I would but it hasn’t really
made me particularly happy and you
certainly meet people around the world
especially in the financial world who
will tell you I’ve achieved success but
not significance and so the story of our
society is that people are very
successful are often still looking for
something else we’ve had a shift in the
culture a shift from a culture of
self-effacement based on the idea that
I’m no better than anybody else but
nobody’s better than me to a culture of
achievement and distinction as the
meritocracy has gotten more pure we’ve
it’s we’ve gotten more competitive and
we’ve based our identity more on what we
can achieve and so it becomes much more
important for us to demonstrate our
achievement and to try to think
achievement can provide moral
fulfillment and as a result we’ve gotten
a lot more expressive we advertise
ourselves we brand ourselves we’ve
gotten a lot bigger about ourselves
believing in our own virtue and trying
to broadcast our own wonderfulness
inside but I think we’ve lost touch with
an older philosophy which was about self
confrontation a belief that while we’re
splendidly and now were also deeply
broken and that the value of life is in
confronting your own brokenness
brokenness and overcoming in the resume
virtues are wouldn’t call the CV virtues
are those that make you good at your job
whether you’re good at math good at
marketing good at teaching the eulogy
virtues are the things they say about
you after you’re dead
whether you’re courageous brave
honorable honest capable of great love
and we all would believe I think that
the eulogy virtues are more important
we’d all rather be remembered for the
things that are deep inside but we live
in a society that puts a lot more
emphasis on the resume or the cv virtues
we’ve school systems that don’t do much
to teach character but do a lot to teach
professional skills we live in a
magazine and self-help book culture
that’s all about external success about
career success
and so you know I’ve spent the last few
years trying to figure out what about
the other side how does how did the how
does character develop how is that
earned and trying to work on those
eulogy virtues characters develop first
three Millett II and humility is not
thinking lowly of yourself it’s radical
self-awareness from a distance it’s
stepping outside yourself and looking in
and seeing where you’re strong but also
especially where you’re weak and then
once you have achieved that humility
it’s a process of self confrontation of
finding your support in your core
weakness and confronting it and trying
to gain gradually and incrementally
better day by day and then you realize
along the way that you can’t achieve
character on your own we all need
redemptive assistance from outside so
it’s ultimately completed when you’re
able to commit to something outside
yourself whether you commit to a
philosophy a vocational of its the
ability to commit over the long period
of time to something very important I
think every career comes with challenges
I happen to be a pundit and so I’m on TV
and radio and my career encourages me to
be a self-important blowhard and so I
have to overcome that some people who
might be in sales they live in a world
of spin and salesmanship they have to
overcome the sincerity of that
politicians live in a world where
they’re broadcasting themselves they’re
selling themselves over all the time
it’s hard to have a soft still voice
inside and so I think each profession
and each lifestyle comes with its own
character challenge and but it’s endemic
in every career no career is pure
probably not even the priesthood or
living in a monastery or something I
found that journaling really helps and I
was of two minds about journaling about
keeping a journal at first I thought it
might encourage a sort of narcissism
that you’re always thinking about
yourself and that’s certainly a danger
but I think when you’re writing for no
one else but yourself that’s the easiest
form in which to be completely honest
about yourself it probably helps to burn
the pages later on humility goes too far
when it becomes complete self-abnegation
and so if you’re a person who’s being
oppressed and you confuse humility with
weakness then it’s gone too far if
you’re oppressed then you need to rise
up in a certain
but I think it’s possible to assert
yourself and also be humbled by by an F
edition because my definition is not
weakness it’s self honesty and we would
say that Martin Luther King was a very
assertive man but he was also very
honest about himself and so I do think
it I think humility is not necessarily weakness but it can turn into weakness
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