Chapter 9. Crafting a Life

Chapter Objectives

This chapter will help you:

  • Learn what researchers say about what makes people happy

  • Understand how optimism, perfectionism, and Type A behaviors may influence productivity, health, and psychological well-being

  • Learn why “flow” is important at work and how to create it

  • See how the U.S. workforce is changing and the implications of these changes on individuals and organizations

  • Understand how your job can affect your health

  • Learn what many working parents want to know: How does day care affect children's well-being?

Today, the materials and skills from which a life is composed are no longer clear. It is no longer possible to follow the paths of previous generations....Many of the most basic concepts we ...

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