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Mar 2016
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Episode 25: Dream Jobs

Hidden Brain, Shankar Vedantam
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Why do you work? Are you just in it for the money, or do you do it for a greater purpose? Popular wisdom says your answer depends on what your job is. But psychologist Amy Wrzesniewski at Yale University finds it may have more to do with how we think about our work. Across secretaries and custodians and computer programmers, she finds we're about equally spl ... Show More
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