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High school students learn early on that their future careers should be passion-driven. Self-help books counsel job searchers to start with reflecting on what they love. And Hollywood films teach people, in romantic fashion, to aspire to work that is intrinsically satisfying and expresses their authentic selves. Researchers call this way of thinking about work the passion paradigm, and studies show it's become pervasive in modern societies.
Today in The Conversation Canada, Galen Watts from KU Leuven and the University of Toronto writes about the Great Resignation and how the “do what you love” philosophy is contributing to it.
He says while it can fuel demands for better, more meaningful work, that's only possible when it’s accompanied by a strong social safety net. He adds: “Workers don’t need to stop loving their jobs. But they should ask whether their jobs are themselves loveable.”
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All the best,
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The passion paradigm is one cause of what has been dubbed the “Great Resignation.”
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Galen Watts, KU Leuven
The passion paradigm can fuel demands for better, more meaningful work, but this is only possible when it’s accompanied by a strong social safety net.
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The best way to stop new variants from arising is to increase the proportion of vaccinated individuals while maintaining infection prevention measures like wearing masks and social distancing.
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Julian Daniel Sunday Willett, McGill University
Even with a variant like Omicron that may be more transmissible than earlier variants, vaccines remain the most effective tool for protection against COVID-19 and for ending the pandemic.
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A man wearing a protective mask rides his bicycle past a face mask mural during the COVID-19 pandemic in Toronto.
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Kate Mulligan, University of Toronto
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Sabrina Laplante, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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The acting foreign minister in Afghanistan’s Taliban-run cabinet, Amir Khan Muttaqi attends a session of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation Council of Foreign Ministers, in Islamabad, Pakistan, in December 2021.
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Andrew Lee, University of Sheffield
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Politics
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Liana Semchuk, University of Oxford
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COVID-19
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Alexander Sundermann, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences; Lee Harrison, University of Pittsburgh Health Sciences
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Arts
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Aram Goudsouzian, University of Memphis
Poitier dazzled Hollywood with on-screen grace and bankability. His dignified roles and respectable values forever changed the image of Blacks, then mostly portrayed as maids, buffoons or criminals.
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