*New York Times* columnist and best-selling author, David Brooks, talks about his new book, *The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement*. He explores how emotions, biases, personality, social norms, and other elements that make up our unconscious minds shape the decisions we make every day.
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David Brooks is one of the nation's leading writers and commentators. He is an op-ed columnist, for the New York Times, a writer for The Atlantic and appears regularly on the PBS Newshour. He is the bestselling author of 'The Second Mountain', 'The Road to Character', 'The Social Animal', 'Bobos in Paradise', and 'On Paradise Drive'.