Should Your Live For Your Resume?

It can be said that all entrepreneurs, who are driven by vision and the idea of changing the world, are able to find the balance between the two important measures of impactful life - achieving external success or internal fulfilment value. This statement can raise the question: Should we live and work for an impressive resume or should we aim to create more value? Or can we balance these two important parts of our lives?

In this highly impactful TED talk, the New York Times columnist and author David Brooks talks about the two existing sides of the modern human self - the one side, which aims to success and is concentrated on the importance of living and working for building an impressive resume, and the other side, which emphasizes on the values of eulogy.