The Importance of Finding Meaning in Your Work

Derek Thompson: Workism is the idea that a certain sliver of the modern economy now looks to work to provide all those things. Erin Griffith: I worry that at a time when we're really fetishizing the idea of work for meaning and passion, find everything that makes you happy in your nine-to-five job. The balancing of work and life is probably the project of living," she says.