The Road to Character

After contrasting the humility of Command Performance, a World War II (WWII) victory, celebrity radio show that was broadcast on D-Day, with the bombastic victory laps of a football quarterback on television, Brooks goes on to give several real-life examples of humility in the face of adversity. He calls this the culture of “Little Me,” whereas the quarterback exemplifies what he calls our present culture of “Big Me,” marked by self-centeredness and constant self-promotion. While he does not necessarily feel that we have lost our way, or even become essentially bad, he believes that we have forgotten how deeply humility benefits not just ourselves, but others.