Finding Joy When You Have Limited Free Time
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Adi, I'm gonna ask you a personal question. Do you have a lot of joy? in your life? That is a very personal question. Uh well let's talk about professional lives at least.
I was editor-in-chief of Harvard Business Review for 16 years. I recently took on a new role as editor at large and that was because I needed something different in my professional life. In the past I wanted to be a manager and have lots of direct reports and lots of responsibility. And I realized that joy in my professional life, you know, as I've gotten older, really depended not on those strappings of power, but on being able to do creative work.
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