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Michael Steger || Meaning, Purpose, and Significance

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The Role of Purpose in Meaningful Work

I think you could actually distinguish between obsessive or harmonious meaning. And another piece brings in to play the social context. Work could be a source of meaning, but it's also one of those domains that we enter into with lots of energy expenditure and consequences. You see cynicism and burnout really do happen when people are operating not necessarily as any particular shift in how any individual person views what they're trying to accomplish.

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