REMASTERED: Are You Fully Charged, with Tom Rath | (Wellbeing, Science, Author, Leadership)
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We've got to find little ways just throughout the day to connect what we're doing with why we're doing it, if for no other reason than because if we do so, then we do better work, it's higher quality and we get more done.
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Tom Hath is pretty much in a world all of his own. And if you don't know, Tom used to be a senior scientist and advisor to Gallup, which is where a lot of his work started. One of the world's leading thinkers, I think. And so, Tom, welcome to the show. Thanks so much. It's great to be talking with you today. Why do you think so many people are struggling to find meaning in their work today?
You know, it's a great question. Top of mind for me is the fact that, one, I'd put a little bit of the burden of that on each of us as individual workers where, you know, we get more focused on happiness and kind of separating out work from family instead of thinking about a more integrated mission and picture. So that's on the individual side of it. On the corporate side of it, you know, it's easy to get conditioned to where you're looking at responding to quarterly demands, near-term demands. And companies don't get as focused on the contribution they're making to the lives of employees. I mean, I think if you were to really step back for a moment and say, why are people part of organizations?
We all, I mean, two entrepreneurs get together in the first place because they think if they join heads that they can do more together than they otherwise could apart.
Right.
That assumption, in my opinion, should kind of be baked into every intention and conversation as organizations grow larger and larger. But yet it's hard to yank ourselves back to say, yeah, I mean, let's say you're a company that is in food service, for example. If you have people who are preparing food each day and they never get to see the face of a satisfied customer who's eating the food they're preparing. They don't make food that's anywhere near as high quality statistically when people study this. And the customers aren't as happy because they don't they don't receive the higher quality food. And so we've got to find little ways just throughout the day to connect what we're doing with why we're doing it for no other reason than because if we do so.
Then we do better work, it's higher quality, and we get more done.
You talk about how meaning is one of the keys, one of the three keys to being fully charged. But what's the difference between pursuing meaning and pursuing happiness?
You know, it's a more important distinction than I would have realized even a few years ago where... You know, it seems like there's this pursuit of happiness that literally the phrase is baked into the Constitution and here in the United States, at least. And people spend a lot of time pursuing their own happiness. And many times when people focus in isolation on their own happiness, it actually takes things in the wrong direction where you get so focused on that it decreases your well-being and the well-being of your family. family or friends or coworkers and network around you. Whereas, you know, even if I had a friend who was really struggling and he was having a hard time right now, the first thing I would recommend he do is something directed towards picking up the spirits of another human being.
Because that's really the best way to pull yourself up in parallel is to focus more of your time and energies on the things that you can do for other people. So that's, I think there's an important distinction there where meaning is something that you get from doing anything, any efforts for another person. And in theory, that also picks up someone else's spirits and it starts to spiral upward and energize the network all around you.
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