Stolzoff: I’m a journalist, so I try to explain issues that matter in an accessible way. I learned that unless we are intentional about the role we want work to have in our lives, it can easily expand like a gas to fill all of our unoccupied space.Ĭhan: How would you describe your personal brand? Even after I left my job to finish the book, I recognized that I was often my own worst manager. Stolzoff: One great irony is that I wrote the majority of the book-a book about the United States’s culture of overwork-on the side of a full-time job. As psychologist Esther Perel says, too many people bring the best of themselves to work, and bring the leftovers home.Ĭhan: What is one thing you learned while writing your book that surprised you? One of the risks of a work-centric existence is that our jobs don’t just take our best hours, but our best energy too. Identities are like plants-they need energy and attention to grow. Stolzoff: It may seem obvious, but if you want to derive sources of identity and meaning outside of work, you need to do things other than work. Chan: What is one lesson from the book that you can share with us?
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