Love and Work

More nice connections from my uni readings...

"We perceived, in subjects' ways of describing their personal meanings, two typical dynamics. Participants expressed either some form of devotion or energy, effort or commitment from within themselves to tasks, persons and activities (e.g. "My practicing Budo [fighting sport] with zest!") or referred to some form of striving for (idealised) gratification of their needs for affiliation, support, or recognition from external objects or persons (e.g. "My family, they provide companionship, comfort me when i'm down and help me with problems")".

- Debats, D.L. (1999). Sources of Meaning: An Investigation of Significant Commitments in Life. Journal of Humanistic Psychology. 39(4). p.30-57.

"When Freud was asked what a normal person should be able to do well, he is reputed to have said, "Love and work.""

~ Jonathan Haidt, Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia in his book The Happiness Hypothesis Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.