Frontiers | Searching for meaning in a post-scarcity society. Implications for creativity and job design
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Frontiers | Searching for meaning in a post-scarcity society. Implications for creativity and job design
The desire for fulfilling work — a job that provides a deep sense of purpose, and reflects our values, passions and personality — is a modern invention. … For centuries, most inhabitants of the Western world were too busy struggling to meet their subsistence needs to worry about whether they had an exciting career that used their talents and nurtur... See more
Maria Popova • How to Find Fulfilling Work
what we're looking for is to find work where our work is unmistakably us, where our work is something we can point to and say, "Given who I am and what I see, I made this. I made this for you. Can you please help me make it better?" And when we can do that, our days are totally different than when we're basically sure that an AI is going
... See moreTim Ferriss • Seth Godin — The Pursuit of Meaning, Choosing Your Attitude, Overcoming Rejection, and More
Instead, they’re potentialities to be harnessed. If we can structure meaning and freedom into our work now, we see the Tom Sawyer Effect—work goes from being an obligation to a choice. It’s no longer something we’re obligated to do, but something we seek out.