Working right trumps finding the right work. You don’t need to have a perfect job to find occupational happiness-you need instead a better approach to the work already available to you.
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Giving people more control over what they do and how they do it increases their happiness, engagement, and sense of fulfillment.
Control over what you do, and how you do it, is one of the most powerful traits you can acquire when creating work you love.
Doing things we know how to do well is enjoyable, and that's exactly the opposite of what deliberate practice demands... Deliberate practice is above all an effort of focus and concentration. Deliberate practice is often the opposite of enjoyable.
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