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"How an acceptance of our limitations can lead to a more fulfilling life and a more harmonious society"--.

• Cover
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Why Greatness Is Not Good Enough
  • The Origins of “Good Enough”
  • A Long History of Overcoming Greatness
  • Recalibrating
  • The Two Economies
  • Lost Einstein Myths
  • But, Come On, Aren’t There Good Forms of Greatness?
  • Cold, Broken, But Still Hallelujah
  • A Good-Enough Life for All
• 2. For Our Selves
  • In the Beginning
  • It’s Not Just the Economy, Stupid
  • The Return of Virtue
  • Meritocracy, No. Greatness, Maybe.
  • Virtues beyond Greatness
  • The World As It Already Is
  • Satisfaction Not Guaranteed
  • Philosophies Born of Struggle
• 3. For Our Relationships
  • Romantic Stories
  • A Circular Journey
  • A Theory of Laughter
  • The Paradoxes of Kindness to Strangers
  • To Heaven or A-fishing
  • As Zhuangzi and Huizi Were
  • We’ll See
  • If This Is Good Enough
  • A Good-Enough President?
• 4. For Our World
  • The Path of Pinheads
  • The Road to Serfdom
  • The Good-Enough Transformation
  • Why Philanthropy Is Not the Answer
  • Some Plans for a Good-Enough World
  • Limiting the Positional Economy
  • A Thought Experiment
• 5. For Our Planet
  • Wired for Whatever
  • Surviving the Fittest
  • Evolving to Be Good Enough
  • The Risk of Great Green Revolutions
  • More with Less, or More from Less?
  • Sharing in the Burden and the Bounty
  • A Good-Enough Relation to Nature
  • The Good-Enough Sublime
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index