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Harvard researchers: The people who are happiest with their careers share this mindset
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Dec 2024

Harvard researchers: The people who are happiest with their careers share this mindset

After a decade of interviewing and studying more than 1,000 workers — from Fortune 500 CEOs to Chipotle kitchen managers — Harvard researchers might have cracked the code to being happier at work.

The secret, according to the researchers, is to focus on progress over perfection in your career, which leads to greater fulfillment than chasing a “dream job” that ticks all of your boxes.

In other words, “identify what energizes you, understand what your priorities are and embrace the trade-offs needed to get there,” Michael B. Horn, a co-author of the research and lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, tells CNBC Make It.

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