Dr. Laurie Santos

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.

But she finds some of them find ways to bring in their strengths.

But she finds some of them find ways to bring in their strengths.

You know, they'll bring in humor and chat with a patient.

You know, they'll bring in humor and chat with a patient.

And that's what makes them want to come to work in the morning because they get to execute that strength.

And that's what makes them want to come to work in the morning because they get to execute that strength.

Or they'll be really into creativity, right?

Or they'll be really into creativity, right?

And then they'll, every day at work,

And then they'll, every day at work,