If you are lucky enough to view your occupation as the labor of love, you don’t “work” a day in your life. And that mindset boosts performance, because happy employees are productive employees. But for people who are not enamored with their professional responsibilities, is there still a way to view the workplace as a source of satisfaction and emotional fulfillment? Believe it or not, the answer is yes.

Many people find it easy to complain when they don’t like their job. Whether it’s long hours or unfulfilling work, most people have no trouble singing the workplace blues. Sometimes the complaints are about management—as many people don’t quit jobs, they quit bosses, because there is more to the workplace experience than the activity we were hired to do. But how often do we finish a work week celebrating accomplishments, singing the praises of co-workers, or relishing in the authentic praise from a superior for a job well done? Perhaps it is time to focus on the personally positive aspects of our work lives instead.

Annamaria Di Fabio et al. (2016) studied the........

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