Chapter 1: Okay, Really … What is a Good Life?
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Published:2016
Celeste C. Wells, 2016. "Okay, Really … What is a Good Life?", Contesting Institutional Hegemony in Today’s Business Schools: Doctoral Students Speak Out
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My story is not unique, but perhaps some of the details are. In writing this chapter on the experience of completing my dissertation while caring for my husband who was diagnosed with late-stage cancer during my doctoral program, as well as supporting my young daughter as she struggled with having a seriously ill parent, I am putting down in words the questions that my husband’s illness and the dissertation process prompted in me about vocation, transcendence, and the meaning of a “good and meaningful life.”1
The definition of “a good life” is an intimate and personal decision. Throughout this chapter I trace, my thoughts, beliefs, and values and in doing so attempt to make sense living life. By no means do I mean to suggest that my definition is the definition of a good life, since that simply isn’t so.
