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Part I (Introduction - Chapter 2)

• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Brooks, David. The Road to Character. Random House, 2015.

• This book is written in both the past and present-tenses. Apart from the Introduction and parts of the last chapter, this book is written in the third-person.

• Brooks begins the Introduction by laying out the differences between what he calls resume virtues and eulogy virtues.

• Resume virtues are the skills someone brings to the job market and that contribute to external success. Eulogy virtues are the virtues that are at the core of one's being - whether one is kind, honest, faithful, etc - the kind of characteristics mentioned in a eulogy.

• Brooks says that although our culture claims to value eulogy virtues highly, most of us end up focusing far too heavily on resume virtues.

• Another way of dividing these virtues...

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