Research shows that working is low down on the list of daily activities. Sex was number one, wasn't it? For making you feel good? Well, in a report they callit intimate relations but assuming that that's what it is, then yet, that was the highest rated in terms of positive emotion. And then work was at the very bottom, only beat out by commuting to work, by the way. That was below house work. Our days are shaped much less by ourselves than we think, and more by our circumstances. I shapes everything,. our sense of ourselves, our capacities. i certainly fall prey to that because i do feel that accomplishment really is an important goal for many people