The Pocket Contemplative

Try "Good-Enough" Living


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Lots of people--from popular bloggers to academics to contemplatives--are pitching that our drive for greatness might not be giving us what it promises. Might "good-enough" living offer us a kind of joy along with giving us a place in a whole world that's happier? Dave Schmelzer mentions four recent discussion of this before focusing on two, including the mega-popular self-help book The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck.

Mentioned on this podcast:

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, by Mark Manson

The Good-Enough Life, by Avram Alpert


Mentioned in passing:

The Extraordinary Gift of Being Ordinary, by Ronald Siegel

Donald Winnicott's thinking about "The Good-Enough Mother"

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