Recorded January 8, 2025
Broadcast January 12, 2025
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We have all been told to strive for greatness, to “go big or go home.” We aspire to be the top of the heap and assume that other people’s successes are our failures. What if those aspirations are unrealistic? What if the pursuit of greatness actually leads to failure and unhappiness. On this episode we challenge this paradigm and ask about the good enough life, a life with good enough success, good enough justice, good enough food, and good enough friends. What would all of this mean and how would it change the discussion?
Avram Alpert is Co-Director of the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in NYC. He teaches writing at Princeton University and is the author of three books, most recently The Good Enough Life.
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