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Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life
Relying on external markers of success can leave ambitious professionals in any field feeling perpetually unfulfilled. This isn’t to say that ambition and achievement are necessarily bad. But in order to satisfy our souls’ deepest yearnings, there must be alignment between our values and the values of the games we play. We
Simone Stolzoff • The Good Enough Job: What We Gain When We Don’t Put Work First
Good work should do at least one of these things: fund the life you actually want to live, align with values you can defend at dinner parties, surround you with people who challenge you to grow, or teach you skills that compound like interest over decades. Great work does several of these at once.
why are we lying to young people about work?
