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Can Work Make You Happy? Should It?
Can Work Make You Happy? Should It?
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people often ask me does work make you
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happy and the answer is it
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can but we have to
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understand how it's a real skill
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the biggest mistake that people make
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about work and happiness is thinking that
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that success in worldly terms is going to bring
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happiness and it's not true
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the the worldly success from work has to do with money
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and power and the admiration of other people and job titles etc etc
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and a lot of people mistakenly
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think that those markers of success
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will bring happiness in its wake in other words be successful
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get happy automatically that's exactly
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wrong I've done research for years as an economist
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on on labor markets and the characteristics
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of work and it's true
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that you need to make
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an income where you can support yourself and your family
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but that doesn't bring happiness that's just eliminates the sources of
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unhappiness to get actual happiness from work you need to seek two things and
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really two things only
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we call them earned
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success and service to others
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service to others is pretty self-explanatory
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I can talk about that in a second
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earn success not so much that's the opposite of what psychologists
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refer to as learned helplessness
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where nothing you do really matters
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and so you kind of give up it's also associated
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with depression and uh loneliness
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in the workplace Etc you don't want learn helplessness
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that's for sure you want earned success where you feel like you're creating value
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with your life value with your work
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value in the lives of other people through your work
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and it's being acknowledged
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and recognized that's how earned success works that's why it's so critically
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important that that people who are bosses
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people who are managers
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that they help other people to earn their success and they recognize the value
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that people are creating that's why meritocracy
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is so critically important for people to get actual Joy from their work
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the second is service to other people you have to feel like your your
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job matters to others and you're lightening
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somebody else's load then you'll go to work with joy
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it's weird data are pretty clear that it doesn't
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actually matter to a certain extent what the job is
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you know I've done experiments with people where they say I feel like I'm
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a drone I feel like I'm a cog and a machine
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and then they'll do something like through the experimentation
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process they'll start getting coffee for the people in the next cubicle
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at 2:00 in the afternoon you look like you could use a fresh cup
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of coffee and mysteriously
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they start to like their jobs
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better why is that because we're made to serve other people
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if you can build your work into something that's meaningful
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to you because you're truly earning your success and recognized
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for it and you're serving other people
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and on top of that you're doing something you're really good
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at work's going to bring you Joy 100% guaranteed
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