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5 hidden drivers behind career happiness. Or how to make 90,000 hours of your life worth it

Meaningful metrics to help understand what we want and recognize success when we get it.

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It’s estimated that the average person will spend 90,000 hours of their life working—that’s roughly a thousand weeks, or a third of our lives.

Over the years, I’ve watched many of my Oxford and Harvard university classmates come to reunions and alumni dinners disillusioned, burned out, unhappy, divorced or separated, and alienated from themselves........

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