The Truth About Work and Life Balance | Christopher Michaelson

Welcome to another episode of Behavior Grooves. I'm Kurt Nelson. And I'm Tim Houahhan. Kurt, I heard you were up late last night reading a book about the value of work. Okay, Tim, do you have a video camera in my my bedroom? This is crazy and it's kinda scary too. So yes, it was late, but it wasn't just any book about work. It was Is Your Job Worth It by Christopher Michelson and Jennifer Tosty Karis. Uh it sounds like a fantastic question to pose, uh, in the form of a book, right? Did it keep you up past your bedtime, by the way? Well, you should know you saw the video. So yeah. So you know Okay, I like reading books by our guests, actually. We we read our books by our guests, and in all seriousness, this was a fascinating read.

And it got me thinking about the nature of work and how we define success. And now I know that sounds a bit philosophical. Which is more in your character and a little bit of out of character for me. But it got me thinking about Why do we work?

Ah well, lucky for us, today, our guest will actually help us dive deeper into that topic because today we're we're gonna welcome Christopher Michelson, one of the co-authors of Is Your Job Worth It? That's right, Tim. And Christopher is a professor of ethics. and business law at the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business, right here in the Twin Cities. He is also an adjunct professor of medical ethics at the University of Minnesota Medical School. Another classic underachiever. Yeah, we have lots of those. Yeah. Yes. Christopher is half of the team that wrote this compelling book on how to think about work. He's the philosophical side, and as you might imagine, we were grateful to chat with him about both of their work and to get that philosophical perspective from him.

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