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Does working hard really make you a good person? | Azim Shariff

TED Business

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The Mental Circuit That Connects Hard Work to Morality

How much of the effort we spend now is done to build nothing but our own moral reputations, he says. And how much of what we admire in others is just effort porn? Hard work can be extremely meaningful when it serves a purpose,. But if what we ask from each other is to produce something meaningful, we will create a world full of meaning - and what could be more moral than that?

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