The case for “good enough”: Forget striving–our happiness depends on being satisfied with less
I admit it: there are one or two things I’m not number one in.More difficult for me to admit is that my lack of number one-ness in these few things is a matter of complete indifference to me, and that I have no particular desire to improve myself. Worse, that this lack of ambition, this ability to not strive for greatness, gives me real pleasure.Worse still (here I’m closing in on ideological treason), I see this ability to rest easy as a virtue, even a talent. (Quite possibly
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