Summary of Avram Alpert's The Good-Enough Life

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Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 The world we live in today is great for the few, and the many suffer because of it. We must find a way to make the world good enough for all.
#2 The world we live in today is great for the few, and the many suffer as a result. We must find a way to make the world good enough for all.
#3 To make the world great, we must first accept that life will never be perfect, and then learn to live with it.
#4 The good-enough parent has a difficult role to play—they must adapt to the infant’s needs, but they must also overcome their desire to overindulge their child. This gives them the capacity to cope with failure and develop their imaginative and creative powers.

Sujets

• Philosophie
• Philosophie de la psychologie
• Philosophie et théologie
• Philosophy
• Social

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 septembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798350000191
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Avram Alpert's The Good-Enough Life
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

The world we live in today is great for the few, and the many suffer because of it. We must find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#2

The world we live in today is great for the few, and the many suffer as a result. We must find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#3

To make the world great, we must first accept that life will never be perfect, and then learn to live with it.

#4

The good-enough parent has a difficult role to play—they must adapt to the infant’s needs, but they must also overcome their desire to overindulge their child. This gives them the capacity to cope with failure and develop their imaginative and creative powers.

#5

We need a cultural movement that can translate into policy the vision of a good-enough world. This means creating a new identity or subculture whose members can resist the pressures of the status quo, and whose philosophy can be translated into policy and social practice.

#6

Building a world that provides enough goodness for all seems to go against human nature. We are not bound by one or the other of these histories.

#7

We can’t overcome greatness, but we can use it to our advantage. We must find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#8

We need to find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#9

We need to find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#10

In a world of scarce opportunities, the one who is recognized by the most people, and the one who is most talented, does not necessarily have more opportunities than the one who is less talented and recognized by fewer people. It creates competitive cycles. Inner cliques. Power centers. It changes writing from an earnest desire to use language to express or transform the world to another system of greatness where the few are rewarded and the many struggle.

#11

We need to find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#12

We need to find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#13

We can’t beat the pyramid, but we can use it to our advantage by making the world good enough for all.

#14

Jeff Bezos’s plans to colonize other planets are less about benevolence than capturing the potentially lucrative low-earth orbit economy of satellites, tourism, and minerals. But if we increase our population but keep our same social structure, we’ll be missing out on a greater number of Einsteins. To put it another way: if we want to create more great scientists and artists, we need to find a way to make the world good enough for all. -> We need to find a way to make the world good enough for all. We can’t beat the pyramid, but we can use it to our advantage by making the world good enough for all.

#15

We need to find a way to make the world good enough for all.

#16

If we want to create more great scientists and artists, we need to make the world good enough for all.

#17

To make the world good enough for all, we must find a way to make the world good enough for all. We can’t beat the pyramid, but we can use it to our advantage by making the world good enough for all.

#18

We need to find a way to make the world good enough for all. We can’t beat the pyramid, but we can use it to our advantage by making the world good enough for all.

#19