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The Good-Enough Life

Author : Avram Alpert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691254680
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Good-Enough Life written by Avram Alpert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all. Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, damage to our relationships, widespread political and economic inequality, and destruction of the natural world. He describes how to move beyond greatness to create a society in which everyone flourishes. By competing less with each other, each of us can find renewed meaning and purpose, have our material and emotional needs met, and begin to lead more leisurely lives. Alpert makes no false utopian promises, however. Life can never be more than good enough because there will always be accidents and tragedies beyond our control, which is why we must stop dividing the world into winners and losers and ensure that there is a fair share of decency and sufficiency to go around. Visionary and provocative, The Good-Enough Life demonstrates how we can work together to cultivate a good-enough life for all instead of tearing ourselves apart in a race to the top of the social pyramid.

The Good-Enough Life

Author : Avram Alpert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691204357
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book The Good-Enough Life written by Avram Alpert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society We live in a world oriented toward greatness, one in which we feel compelled to be among the wealthiest, most powerful, and most famous. This book explains why no one truly benefits from this competitive social order, and reveals how another way of life is possible—a good-enough life for all. Avram Alpert shows how our obsession with greatness results in stress and anxiety, damage to our relationships, widespread political and economic inequality, and destruction of the natural world. He describes how to move beyond greatness to create a society in which everyone flourishes. By competing less with each other, each of us can find renewed meaning and purpose, have our material and emotional needs met, and begin to lead more leisurely lives. Alpert makes no false utopian promises, however. Life can never be more than good enough because there will always be accidents and tragedies beyond our control, which is why we must stop dividing the world into winners and losers and ensure that there is a fair share of decency and sufficiency to go around. Visionary and provocative, The Good-Enough Life demonstrates how we can work together to cultivate a good-enough life for all instead of tearing ourselves apart in a race to the top of the social pyramid.

Good Enough

Author : Daniel S. Milo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0674504623
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough written by Daniel S. Milo and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosopher Daniel Milo offers a vigorous critique of the quasi-monopoly that Darwin's natural selection has on our idea of the natural world. In popular thought, Darwinism has even acquired the trappings of an ethical system, focused on optimization, competition, and innovation. Yet in nature, imperfect creatures often have the evolutionary edge.

Never Good Enough

Author : Monica Ramirez Basco
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 068486293X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Never Good Enough written by Monica Ramirez Basco and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide to overcoming the dangers of being a perfectionist--from debilitating feelings of self-doubt to difficulties with other people--shows readers how their perfectionist tendencies can actually help them succeed.

Good Enough

Author : Kate Bowler
Publisher : Convergent Books
ISBN 13 : 0593193687
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough written by Kate Bowler and published by Convergent Books. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A compassionate, intelligent, and wry series of Christian daily reflections on learning to live with imperfection in a culture of self-help that promotes endless progress, from the author of Everything Happens for a Reason and the executive producer of the Everything Happens podcast “Brilliant, hilarious, absurd, honest, hopeful, true-hearted, and good to the core.”—Sarah Bessey, editor of A Rhythm of Prayer and author of Jesus Feminist In Kate Bowler’s bestselling memoir Everything Happens for a Reason, readers witnessed the ways she, as a divinity-school professor and young mother, reckoned with a Stage IV cancer diagnosis; in her follow-up memoir, No Cure for Being Human, she unflinchingly and winsomely unpacked the ways that life becomes both hard and beautiful when we abandon certainty and the illusion of control in our lives. Now, in their first-ever devotional book, Kate Bowler and co-author Jessica Richie offer 40ish short spiritual reflections on how we can make sense of life not as a pursuit of endless progress but as a chronic condition. This book is a companion for when you want to stop feeling guilty that you’re not living your best life now. Written gently and with humor, Good Enough is permission for all those who need to hear that there are some things you can fix—and some things you can’t. And it’s okay that life isn’t always better. In these gorgeously written reflections, Bowler and Richie offer fresh imagination for how truth, beauty, and meaning can be discovered amid the chaos of life. Their words celebrate kindness, honesty, and interdependence in a culture that rewards ruthless individualism and blind optimism. Ultimately, in these pages we can rest in the encouragement to strive for what is possible today—while recognizing that though we are finite, the life in front of us can be beautiful.

Good Enough Is the New Perfect

Author : Becky Beaupre Gillespie
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 1459201655
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (592 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough Is the New Perfect written by Becky Beaupre Gillespie and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated 10th anniversary edition of Gillespie and Temple’s groundbreaking research, Good Enough Is the New Perfect shows that modern mothers really can have it all. The pressure on women is real. We dominate in our jobs while simultaneously juggling the needs of our families and our homes. But what about our own needs? With so many balls in the air, finding balance is harder than ever. The truth is that you can have it all. The secret is creating an “all” that you love. Through their extensive research, Becky Beaupre Gillespie and Hollee Schwartz Temple have discovered a paradigm shift in motherhood: more and more mothers are losing their “never enough” attitude and embracing a “good enough” mindset to be happier, more confident and more fulfilled. With inspiring firsthand accounts from working mothers, Good Enough Is the New Perfect is a true roadmap for the incredible balancing act we call motherhood and getting what you really want out of your career, your family and your life. “Most moms I know don’t even want it all. We just want less stress and enough time. But how can we achieve it? [Good Enough Is the New Perfect] sheds light on this question.” —The Washington Post

Will I Ever be Good Enough?

Author : Karyl McBride
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416551328
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Will I Ever be Good Enough? written by Karyl McBride and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A resource for daughters of mothers with narcissistic personality disorder explains how to manage feelings of inadequacy and abandonment in the face of inappropriate maternal expectations and conditional love, in a step-by-step guide that shares recommendations for creating a personalized program for self-protection and recovery. 50,000 first printing.

Good Enough: A Novel

Author : Jen Petro-Roy
Publisher : Feiwel & Friends
ISBN 13 : 1250123518
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough: A Novel written by Jen Petro-Roy and published by Feiwel & Friends. This book was released on 2019-02-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young girl with an eating disorder must find the strength to recover in this moving middle-grade novel from Jen Petro-Roy Before she had an eating disorder, twelve-year-old Riley was many things: an aspiring artist, a runner, a sister, and a friend. But now, from inside the inpatient treatment center where she's receiving treatment for anorexia, it's easy to forget all of that. Especially since under the influence of her eating disorder, Riley alienated her friends, abandoned her art, turned running into something harmful, and destroyed her family's trust. If Riley wants her life back, she has to recover. Part of her wants to get better. As she goes to therapy, makes friends in the hospital, and starts to draw again, things begin to look up. But when her roommate starts to break the rules, triggering Riley's old behaviors and blackmailing her into silence, Riley realizes that recovery will be even harder than she thought. She starts to think that even if she does "recover," there's no way she'll stay recovered once she leaves the hospital and is faced with her dieting mom, the school bully, and her gymnastics-star sister. Written by an eating disorder survivor and activist, Good Enough is a realistic depiction of inpatient eating disorder treatment, and a moving story about a girl who has to fight herself to survive.

When You Think You're Not Enough

Author : Daphne Rose Kingma
Publisher : Conari Press
ISBN 13 : 9781573245340
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (453 download)

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Download or read book When You Think You're Not Enough written by Daphne Rose Kingma and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are thousands of reasons for not loving ourselves. Every person has one, or one hundred, it seems. We're too fat or too thin. We cry too easily or not at all. We're not good enough, pretty enough, tall enough, powerful enough, brave enough or interesting enough. We convince ourselves that we don't deserve the lives we desire. In When You Think You're Not Enough, bestselling author and psychotherapist, Daphne Rose Kingma, helps readers root out the behaviors and beliefs that have prevented them from loving themselves. She offers a four-step plan for reclaiming yourself: speaking out our heart's desire, acting out to meet our heart's desire, clearing out old patterns, and setting out on a new path. Through stories and examples, Kigma offers a profound, yet simple process for practicing how to feel good enough, smart enough, and deserving of happiness. When You Think You're Not Enough is a positive guide to a fuller, happier life; one filled with compassion for yourself and others. Kingma's book The Ten Things to Do When Your Life Falls Apart, published by New World Library, is the Winner of the 2010 Books for A Better Life Award, Best Spiritual Book.

A Partial Enlightenment

Author : Avram Alpert
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231553390
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book A Partial Enlightenment written by Avram Alpert and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other philosophies feel abstract and disembodied, Buddhism offers meditation as a means to realize this ideal. If we could all be as enlightened as Buddhists, some imagine, we could live in a much better world. For some time now, however, this beatific image of Buddhism has been under attack. Scholars and practitioners have criticized it as a Western fantasy that has nothing to do with the actual experiences of Buddhists. Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world. Finding unexpected affinities across world literature—Rudyard Kipling in colonial India, Yukio Mishima in postwar Japan, Bessie Head escaping apartheid South Africa—as well as in his own experiences living with Tibetan exiles, Alpert shows how these stories illuminate a world in which suffering is inevitable and total enlightenment is impossible. Yet they also give us access to partial enlightenments: powerful insights that become available when we come to terms with imperfection and stop looking for wholeness. A Partial Enlightenment reveals the moments of personal and social transformation that the inventions of modern Buddhism help make possible.

How Much is Enough?

Author : Robert Skidelsky
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590515080
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book How Much is Enough? written by Robert Skidelsky and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and timely call for a moral approach to economics, drawing on philosophers, political theorists, writers, and economists from Aristotle to Marx to Keynes. What constitutes the good life? What is the true value of money? Why do we work such long hours merely to acquire greater wealth? These are some of the questions that many asked themselves when the financial system crashed in 2008. This book tackles such questions head-on. The authors begin with the great economist John Maynard Keynes. In 1930 Keynes predicted that, within a century, per capita income would steadily rise, people’s basic needs would be met, and no one would have to work more than fifteen hours a week. Clearly, he was wrong: though income has increased as he envisioned, our wants have seemingly gone unsatisfied, and we continue to work long hours. The Skidelskys explain why Keynes was mistaken. Then, arguing from the premise that economics is a moral science, they trace the concept of the good life from Aristotle to the present and show how our lives over the last half century have strayed from that ideal. Finally, they issue a call to think anew about what really matters in our lives and how to attain it. How Much Is Enough? is that rarity, a work of deep intelligence and ethical commitment accessible to all readers. It will be lauded, debated, cited, and criticized. It will not be ignored.

Am I Good Enough?

Author : Andy Stanley
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 1590524675
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book Am I Good Enough? written by Andy Stanley and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2005 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this updated edition of the bestselling book, teen readers find out why Jesus taught that goodness is not even a requirement to enter heaven - and why Christianity is beyond fair.

When Good Enough is Not Enough

Author : Allan Lockerman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871481313
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (813 download)

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Download or read book When Good Enough is Not Enough written by Allan Lockerman and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Allan Lockerman is a veteran pastor and Bible teacher. From the Book of Joshua, he unravels the story of people who spent most of their lives settling for less than God's best, until one day, "good enough" was not enough. Instead, they claimed the land and embraced the life God promised. Lockerman skillfully identifies parallels between those ancient Hebrews and today's Christians. You can join in discovering the "abundant life" promised in the new covenant.

The Good Enough Parent: How to raise contented, interesting and resilient children

Author : The School of Life
Publisher : School of Life Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912891542
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book The Good Enough Parent: How to raise contented, interesting and resilient children written by The School of Life and published by School of Life Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raising a child to be an authentic and mentally robust adult is one of life’s great challenges. It is also, fortunately, not a matter of luck. There are many things to understand about how children’s minds operate and what they need from those who look after them so they can develop into the best version of themselves. The Good Enough Parent is a compendium of lessons, including ideas on how to say ‘no’ to a child one adores, how to look beneath the surface of ‘bad’ behaviour to work out what might really be going on, how to encourage a child to be genuinely kind, how to encourage open self expression, and how to handle the moods and gloom of adolescence. Importantly, this is a book that knows that perfection is not required – and could indeed be unhelpful, because a key job of any parent is to induct a child gently into the imperfect nature of everything. Written in a tone that is encouraging, wry and soaked in years of experience, The Good Enough Parent is an intelligent guide to raising a child who will one day look back on their childhood with just the right mixture of gratitude, humour and love.

Good Enough

Author : Paula Yoo
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060790903
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough written by Paula Yoo and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Getting 100 % on the SATs, or getting a date with a cute trumpet player? Scoring top honors in youth orchestra, or scoring tickets to a punk rock concert? Following your parents' dreams to an Ivy league college, or following your heart? It's senior year, and Patti Yoon is about to find out what it really takes to be good enough!

Good Enough

Author : Kim Foster Carlson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781504395991
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (959 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough written by Kim Foster Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you have a hard time making decisions? Do you avoid situations out of fear of what others will think? Do you procrastinate so much that it interferes with your daily life? Do you give up easily if things get tough? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you might just be a perfectionist. Veteran journalist and accomplished athlete Kim Foster Carlson gives you the tools to overcome the obstacles that have been holding you back from living your best life.

Good Enough

Author : Carly Newberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781636764108
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (641 download)

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Download or read book Good Enough written by Carly Newberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because it doesn't matter how many times someone looks you in the eyes and tells you you're beautiful, you have to believe it-and if you don't-you have to keep fighting. In Good Enough: Believing Beautiful through Trauma, through Life, through Disorder, author Carly Newberg reveals what it's like to live with her "monsters"-the insidious voices inside her head that insist she isn't worthy-and her journey toward overcoming them. Drawing on her Christian faith and authors such as Dr. Anita Johnston, Don Richard Riso, and Mark Nepo, Carly encourages readers to shed their masks and enter the world as they are while embracing both their flaws and strengths. In this collection of stories and journal entries, Carly explores... the reality of living with an eating disorder, the problem with comparison, and the ways in which one's environment affects one's growth-for better or worse. Readers from all walks of life are sure to see themselves in Carly's story and discover new ways to thrive in spite of life's challenges. Most importantly, this memoir will empower readers to see past the false stories they tell themselves so that they, too, can believe they are good enough.