In hindsight, these observations are obvious. If life-transforming missions could be found with just a little navel-gazing and an optimistic attitude… - Cal Newport

The day the declutter was over, I raced back to Facebook, to my old blogs, to Discord, gleeful and ready to dive back in — and then, after about thirty minutes of aimless browsing, I kind of looked up and thought … why am I doing this? This is … boring? This isn’t bringing me any kind of happiness. It took a declutter for me to notice that these technologies aren’t actually adding anything to my life.

If you want a great job, you need something of great value to offer in return.

In one such study, mentioned in Pink’s book, researchers at Cornell followed over three hundred small businesses, half of which focused on giving control to their employees and half of which did not. The control-centric businesses grew at four times the rate of their counterparts. In another study, which I found during my own research, giving autonomy to middle school teachers in a struggling school district not only increased the rate at which the teachers were promoted, but also, to the surprise of the researchers, reversed the downward performance trend of their students.