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Stop Looking for the Perfect Job

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The Good Enough Job and the Dream Job

There are two origins of the phrase. The first is The Good Enough Job relative to the dream job. The second origin is an allusion to this theory that was devised by a British pediatrician and psychoanalyst named Donald Winakot. "Taking a good enough approach to work can actually help us not lose ourselves in our professional rises and falls," she says.

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