Interesting article!
The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called playing. Occasionally the things adults made you do were fun, just as, occasionally, playing wasn't—for example, if you fell and hurt yourself. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun.
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
The very idea is foreign to what most of us learn as kids. When I was a kid, it seemed as if work and fun were opposites by definition. Life had two states: some of the time adults were making you do things, and that was called work; the rest of the time you could do what you wanted, and that was called playing. Occasionally the things adults made you do were fun, just as, occasionally, playing wasn't—for example, if you fell and hurt yourself. But except for these few anomalous cases, work was pretty much defined as not-fun.
http://www.paulgraham.com/love.html
On this topic, I'll mention the name of three books:
ReplyDelete+ Now, Discover Your Strengths (by Marcus Buckingham)
+ Go Put Your Strengths To Use (by Marcus Buckingham)
+ What Color is Your Parachute (by Richard N. Bolles; a new, updated version of this book is re-released each year)