A dozen voices from across the institution told students that while those who lead flat and unremarkable lives may avoid struggle, a well-lived life … - David Brooks

cultivation of the hard skills, while failing to develop the moral and emotional faculties down below. Children are coached on how to jump through a thousand scholastic hoops. Yet by far the most important decisions they will make are about whom to marry and whom to befriend, what to love and what to despise, and how to control impulses. On these matters, they are almost entirely on their own. We are good at talking about material incentives, but bad about talking about emotions and intuitions. We are good at teaching technical skills, but when it comes to the most important things, like character, we have almost nothing to say.

Humility is a virtue of self-understanding in context, acquired by the practice of other centeredness.

We have the power to choose narratives in which we absolve ourselves of guilt and blame everything on conspiracies or others.