The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life From Work

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Your mind's status is the most powerful extrinsic motivator for a lot of us. Status keeps people working longer as you're striving for the next rung on the career ladder. I don't think it's inherently a problem that we have these extrinsic markers of success, but I think their risk is when we are motivated by them and not having to consider what we ourselves value.

Do you live to work or work to live? Journalist Simone Stolzoff tackles that age-old question with renewed energy in his book "The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life from Work." All this week, he'll be chatting with host Michael Kovnat about how work came to play such an outsized role in our lives and what would happen if we stopped chasing the dream gig, gave up the idea of having a calling, and instead tried to find jobs that were simply good enough.