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WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Harmonic Passion for Public Health

Sally Kohn: I'm struck by what the psychologist Robert Valerand has called harmonious passion as opposed to obsessive passion. There are cycles of how the work works and it's understanding those cycles, she says. "I need to be fed about every 3 to 6 months with a victory that feels meaningful and transformative," writes Kohn. She took this job at USAID which required her to leave the New Yorker in order to work on global health issues.

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