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Here are a few excerpts from a book I recently read, "Do Good At Work: How Simple Acts of Social Purpose Drive Success and Wellbeing," by Bea Boccalandro.

I baked a quiche for a dinner party once. Its flavor was allegedly mushroom cheddar, but it tasted more like flavorless gelatin. I tried to highlight the crisp green salad during dinner conversation, but a side dish couldn't redeem the meal. Many of us make this same mistake with work. If our jobs aren't fulfilling, we resort to the popular practice of work-life balance. We try to counter work's blandness with golf, movies, or volunteering during the waking hours that work does not occupy. These are worthy things to do, but they are the side dishes that can't make up for a bland main course. Typically, evening and weekend activities can't pull us out of work-caused doldrums.



If your job doesn't improve the world, improve your job.

Expanding work towards social purpose doesn't add work to our lives. It adds life to our work.

I can find a way to live cheaply. I can't find a way to keep doing something pointless.