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Episode 25: Dream Jobs
Hidden Brain
English - March 29, 2016 04:00 - 20 minutes - 18.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 38.8K ratingsSocial Sciences Science Natural Sciences business news health interview entrepreneurship politics leadership science entrepreneur finance Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Why do you work? Are you just in it for the money, or do you do it for a greater purpose? Popular wisdom says your answer depends on what your job is. But psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski at Yale University finds it may have more to do with how we think about our work. Across secretaries and custodians and computer programmers, she finds we're about equally split in whether we say we have a job, a career, or a calling. This week on Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam talks with Amy about how we find meaning and purpose at work.