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Love The Work You’re With: The ‘Genius Habit’ that Will Shift Your Relationship Forever

Love The Work You’re With: The ‘genius habit’ that will shift your relationship forever by Laura Garnett. Photograph of flowers at office desk by Georgia de Lotz
Photograph by Georgia De Lotz

Why is it so hard to love work? It’s confounding that we have 3d printers that are printing body parts to save lives, but that currently, according to Gallop, only 34% of Americans are engaged with work, which is the highest it’s ever been. While it’s encouraging that it’s rising, it still remains that 13% are actively disengaged and 53% are disengaged. That means that 66% of Americans are still not engaged with their work. Why is this? 

This is a question that has plagued me for years. It started with my own career crisis 10 years ago. I was working at Google in a job that was the worst fit I could

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