The Definition Of Good Work
by Terry Heick
What’s the definition of ‘good work’?
Good work is work that makes the world ‘better’ but, of course, that’s subjective. So let’s keep trying.
Good work is the ongoing exertion of cognitive, creative, and physical functions in pursuit of a world that not only makes room for such things but supports others in doing good work, too.
Good work can be done through jobs that, if continued can become ‘careers’ but doesn’t require either. Ideally, one’s work on job are the same but may not fully overlap.
In 2015, in Wendell Berry And Preparing Students For Good Work, I quoted Berry: “The old and honorable idea of “vocation” is simply that we each are called…by our gifts, or by our preference, to a kind of good work for which we are particularly fitted. Implicit in this idea is the evidently startling possibility that we might work willingly, and that there is no necessary contradiction between work and happiness or satisfaction.”
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