At work, we have all sorts of structures in place to maintain our professional poise—formal ones like performance reviews and regular meetings, informal ones like online gossip and water-cooler chatter. There’s also the powerful motivator of money, status, power—and keeping our job. At home—whether we live alone or have a family—the structures and motivators vanish. We’re free to be anyone we want to be. And we don’t always aim high enough.
