KERA's Think

You don’t need to be exceptional to live a good life


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What if, to be happy, you didn’t need to be great, you just needed to be pretty good? Avram Alpert is a lecturer in the writing program at Princeton University and co-editor of Shifter magazine. He joins host Krys Boyd to discuss why our competitive nature blinds us to the fact that there is enough success to go around – and how to find purpose in life being just OK. His book is called “The Good-Enough Life.
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