According to the World Bank, more people now live inside this circle than outside of it - see @WorldBank pic.twitter.com/iN1gDHaFiV.
Imagine a job "big enough for the spirit".
Roman Krznaric gave a talk on his book, How to Find Fulfilling Work, as part of the launch of The School of Life’s practical philosophy book series. Krznaric offered five essential ideas for career change, drawing on career advice from Leonardo da Vinci, Aristotle and a woman who gave herself the unusual 30th birthday present of trying out 30 different jobs in one year.
Of Mice and Men - redux? Chastening and often stunning images of the impact that global recession can have in our day and age might suggest so, yet the blooming sunflower might suggest too that hope springs eternal or, as Roy Harper puts it so lyrically, "through all destruction flies new dawn".
Man such sunflowers constantly emerge, displaying a wide variety of proposed "antidotes to the pessimism of the post-crisis world". If you'd like to hear constructive suggestions for our way ahead economically, you could also listen to the following podcasts:
Work for something because it is good, not just because it stands a chance to succeed - Vaclav Havel
Without work, all life goes rotten, but when work is soulless, life stifles and dies - Albert Camus
The work you're meant to do lies at the intersection of what you do uniquely well, what is needed in the world that no one else is precisely meeting, and what you have passion for - Dave Pollard, http://howtosavetheworld.ca/2010/05/18/the-hard-part-is-finding-people-…
Remember it's the cynics in the organisation who care, not the people who are just trying the say the right thing - Dave Snowden http://www.cognitive-edge.com/blogs/dave/2010/05/in_derrogation_of_the_…
One of the comedies of working life is pretending to care about big things - Lucy Kellaway
In work, as in love, your life can be ruined because the right person, though out there, wasn't located in time - Alain de Botton http://twitter.com/alaindebotton
Ideal work is when you combine passion with compassion - Ron Young