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The feeling is mutual, you piked my interest. Thanks for the food for thought. About positive emotions in work, my personal take-away — took me two decades to
by K0SM0S 7y ago
The feeling is mutual, you piked my interest. Thanks for the food for thought.
About positive emotions in work, my personal take-away — took me two decades to figure this out, but I think it's really true:
The goal is not to try really hard to always do what you love.
It's about trying really hard to always love what you do.
(Now or ever.)
I could write a book about why and how but this is probably not the place. One key though is exactly this playful mindset, it lets us redefine, in thought only, how we feel while doing something. We can always at least choose to love our effort, our doing it, try to mini-game quality or production — whatever makes it easier and ourselves better in one fell swoop.
- friendlybus 7y agoWell I saw a talk by a designer woman who put out the massive oversized text wrapped across mall walls at escalator junctions and whatever else in the 80s. She described her most productive work in life as being a form of "serious play". That has stuck with me and now you're saying something similar too.