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The Aspen Ideas Festival is underway in Aspen, Colorado.  Each year, the Aspen Institute brings together some of the nation's brightest and most provocative thinkers and policy makers to discuss and debate key issues of the day. 

Today we hear from one of the nation's top syndicated columnists, David Brooks, who spoke to an overflow crowd at Aspen about modesty and how a lack of it is making it much more difficult to solve our nation's problems.

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David Brooks speaks at the 2011 Aspen Ideas Festival about what he sees as a disturbing shift in our cultural values. He argues we have become a nation of over-confident individuals drowning in praise, and warns some of the larger problems of modern society are reflective of these attitudes.

Aspen Ideas: David Brooks shares his 'modesty manifesto'

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