Yes! There are all kinds of problems worth solving — sometimes you get paid for them, sometimes you don't.
One of the most interesting insights in my (so far just 50 person!) qual study on how to have a healthy relationship with work was finding that the healthiest people I spoke to were not passionate about their profession, they were pa…
Yes! There are all kinds of problems worth solving — sometimes you get paid for them, sometimes you don't.
One of the most interesting insights in my (so far just 50 person!) qual study on how to have a healthy relationship with work was finding that the healthiest people I spoke to were not passionate about their profession, they were passioante about life. They constantly sought out interesting problems to solve and devoted themselves to it.
One of the women I spoke to had this fascinating way of charging for her time — the more she was interested in something, the less she charged to do the work. There's actually research that bears this out — when you introduce an extrinsic reward like money or status, you actually become less intrinsically motivated to do it.
It seems counter-intuitive, especially in the context of exploited passion, but she was balancing her books on joy more than money and it was working for her.
Another funny thing I found — the healthiest people had the hardest time explaining what they do for a living, most often because they did so many different things according to their interests. Life as a great big buffet of interesting problems worth solving.
Yes! There are all kinds of problems worth solving — sometimes you get paid for them, sometimes you don't.
One of the most interesting insights in my (so far just 50 person!) qual study on how to have a healthy relationship with work was finding that the healthiest people I spoke to were not passionate about their profession, they were passioante about life. They constantly sought out interesting problems to solve and devoted themselves to it.
One of the women I spoke to had this fascinating way of charging for her time — the more she was interested in something, the less she charged to do the work. There's actually research that bears this out — when you introduce an extrinsic reward like money or status, you actually become less intrinsically motivated to do it.
It seems counter-intuitive, especially in the context of exploited passion, but she was balancing her books on joy more than money and it was working for her.
Another funny thing I found — the healthiest people had the hardest time explaining what they do for a living, most often because they did so many different things according to their interests. Life as a great big buffet of interesting problems worth solving.