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Title: Connelly


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What is work??
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Defining work
  • Oxford English Dictionary 9 pages
  • Random House Dictionary 54 definitions
  • Websters Unabridged Dictionary 45 definitions
  • Work being on the job

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an idle mind is the devils workshop
  • Work satisfies psychological social needs as
    well as material needs
  • Aristotle- you can not have leisure
  • ?unemployment sucks the energy out of people
  • Without work there is no security!

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Why do we work?
  • Aesops fables
  • The Ant the Grasshopper
  • ?work or suffer consequences
  • The Ant the Bee
  • ?good to work hard, but better when your work
    benefits others
  • Key to capitalism- serving personal interests
    can leads to public benefit (Bernard Mandeville)
  • ?thrift is not a virtue of rich

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What can we learn from the ant, grasshopper bee?
  • grasshoppertoo much play you wont survive
  • ant too much work you wont know how to
  • stop working
  • bee work should benefit others
  • work must have meaning

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Aesops creatures give us3 ways to approach life
  • Frugal
  • Acquisitive
  • Hard-working
  • ? The problem with habits

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Working _at_ Playing, Playing _at_ Work
  • working out
  • Competitive sports
  • The Game of Work

8
Sloth
  • Today
  • Laziness / disinclination to work
  • Original message
  • Not caring

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Given the freedom to choose, what should we be
doing with the time allotted to us?
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How we choose our jobs4 Values
  • Meaningful work
  • Leisure
  • Money
  • Security
  • ?Tradeoffs
  • at different points in ones life, different
    values will dominate

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Why does this matter?
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YOU
  • Are defined by your work!
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