Unfortunately, many now feel lost and aimless, just wandering through life. This is partly because we’ve been sold a new religion: workism. As writer Derek Thompson explains, we have many “adherents to a cult of productivity and achievement, wherein anything short of finding one’s vocational soulmate amounts to a wasted life. They have found a new kind of religion—one that valorizes work, career, and achievement above all else. And it’s making them a little bit crazy.” When our work inevitably can’t fulfill all of our needs, we’re left wondering how we can find something that does.
