Rising to your level of misery
They can’t pay you enough money to do a job you hate.
I have a lot of lasting memories of my grandfather—homegrown tomatoes, “Heart and Soul” duets on the piano—but that’s the primary piece of wisdom I remember him passing along to me. And it’s a good one.
I was thinking about Grandpa’s advice when I read a recent piece in the New York Times, “Rising to your level of misery at work.” In it Arthur Brooks talks about the tendency to get promoted past the place where you find joy and passion in your profession:
