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Indra Nooyi wants us to reimagine the return to work

WorkLife with Adam Grant

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Purpose Fill Projects Keep You Whole

When i was selling thread as my first job, you can se, what the hell ispurp and thread, but i didn't look at it that way. I was selling thread to those cut and sow a shops, which were five or six tailors making madras cotton shirts to export. That was their livelihood. So i had a deep sense of responsibility about those pools of thread. Purpose fill projects kept me whole. If you're in a but there's no purpose or meaning, think hard about how to inject purpose or meaning into it. And if you can't do it, then it's time for you to rethink what you want to do with your life.

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