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Brief thought exercise: how closely do you connect your self-worth to your job?
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Work shouldn't be EVERYTHING, right?

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Ted Bauer
Jul 19, 2014
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Been thinking about this for a few years now in various forms: essentially, how do you view work in the grand scheme of your overall life? We clearly spend a lot of time there, even if there's no real science around it -- by some measure it could be about 1/3 of your adult life (this can o…

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