Passion for your work is a little bit of discovery, followed by a lot of development, and then a lifetime of deepening. - Angela Duckworth

A calling is not some fully formed thing that you find," she tells advice seekers. "It's much more dynamic. Whatever you do — whether you're a janitor or the CEO — you can continually look at what you do and ask how it connects to other people, how it connects to the bigger picture, how it can be an expression of your deepest values.

Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

For many of us, the companies we work for are an important cultural force in our lives. For instance, growing up, my dad liked to refer to himself as a DuPonter. All the pencils in our house were company-issued, embossed with phrases like Safety First, and my dad would light up every time a DuPont commercial came on television, sometimes even chiming in with the voice-over: "Better things for better living." I think my dad only met the CEO of DuPont a handful of times, but he'd tell stories of his good judgment the way you might speak of a family war hero.