The growing field of positive psychology has identified a number of factors that boost people’s sense of well-being and purpose, and found that some (but not all!) jobs can provide many of them, for example:57 a social network of friends and colleagues a healthy and virtuous lifestyle respect, self-esteem, self-efficacy and a pleasurable sense of “flow” stemming from doing something one is good at a sense of being needed and making a difference a sense of meaning from being part of and serving something larger than oneself This gives reason for optimism, since all of these things can be
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