David Brooks: Perception Is an Act of Creation

The Sounds True Podcast Network. Not only is the universe not cold and lifeless or or meaningless, but it's moral that there is a moral order to the universe that holds us all. All human beings, as far as I know, long for belonging, they long for respect, they long for pleasure, they long for meaning. And these are the yearnings of the soul, and they are woven into our nature because they are present in the universe. Welcome, friends.

In this episode of Insights at the Edge, I'm so pleased to say that David Brooks is our guest. David Brooks is a well-known Canadian-born American author and commentator. He's been writing an op-ed column for the New York Times since 2003. and is a contributing writer at The Atlantic and appears regularly on the PBS News Hour. He's the author of several best-selling books, including The Road to Character, The Second Mountain, and most recently, How to Know a Person, The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Seen.

Friends, stay with us. It was about a decade ago when I first heard this teaching from the famous management philosopher, Peter Drucker. The most important thing for an executive to learn is not how to manage other people. It's to learn how to manage yourself. I heard this quote from Jeremy Hunter, who's been voted Professor of the Year eight times by his graduating class at the Drucker School of Management.

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