Ep. 249: The Good Enough Job (w/ Simone Stolzoff)
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
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*🔑 Key: Understanding what a good enough job means to you, and recognizing when you have it! *
Understanding what good enough means to you in terms of salary, title, industry, work-life balance, and aligning it with your values can help you recognize when you have a good enough job. Pursuing meaningful work without letting it consume your identity is important. Chasing more and more without knowing the purpose leads to restlessness and lack of fulfillment. However, completely quitting or rejecting work is not a recipe for fulfillment either, as we still need to meet our material needs. Viewing work as a necessary evil is not conducive to happiness.
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