Dr. Laurie Santos

I get to appreciate beauty.

I get to appreciate beauty.

I get to show my integrity.

I get to show my integrity.

I get to show off my social intelligence or my empathy or kindness.

I get to show off my social intelligence or my empathy or kindness.

These are all values that we have.

These are all values that we have.

And in fact, we differ in how much those things mean to us.

And in fact, we differ in how much those things mean to us.

Her work finds that if you can re-describe your job and even put more into your job where you're executing those values,

Her work finds that if you can re-describe your job and even put more into your job where you're executing those values,

you wind up more likely thinking your job is a calling, you wind up happier at work, and your supervisors think you're performing better on your regular job description because you're bringing in these values that matter to you.

you wind up more likely thinking your job is a calling, you wind up happier at work, and your supervisors think you're performing better on your regular job description because you're bringing in these values that matter to you.

And I love her work so much because she studies job crafting, not in probably some of the many interesting young professional careers that you talk about on this podcast.

And I love her work so much because she studies job crafting, not in probably some of the many interesting young professional careers that you talk about on this podcast.

She studies job crafting in hospital janitorial staff workers.

She studies job crafting in hospital janitorial staff workers.

So these are people who are like mopping the floor in a hospital and so on.

So these are people who are like mopping the floor in a hospital and so on.