Many Americans—especially young adults—want to do work that feels meaningful. Creating meaning for oneself may be especially important as fewer workplaces provide good pay and benefits to their ...

Academe runs on a secret economy of gifts. It’s helpful to understand this via Marcel Mauss whose groundbreaking ethnography has influenced all modern thinking about the giving and receiving of gifts ...

Working in certain professions — religion, medicine, and the law come to mind — is more likely to be associated with the idea of a calling than others. (We don’t commonly think of plumbers, office ...

A calling — broadly understood as the relentless pursuit of a passion, a vision, or an endeavor in a career — can create an unrivaled sense of purpose in individuals. This purpose in leadership and ...

In addition to the ability to hope, with which we are all endowed (as humans), each one of us is also individually and uniquely gifted with an exceptional talent in one or two particular areas of ...

The most baffling question raised by “The Twelve Days of Christmas” may be who wants their true love to give them 23 birds, but there are others. Like what the heck is a calling bird? And what, ...

Prof. Loretta J. Ross is combating cancel culture with a popular class at Smith College. Credit...Peyton Fulford for The New York Times Supported by By Jessica Bennett Nyla Conaway, 19, remembers ...

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Ben Khalesi covers the intersection of artificial intelligence and everyday tech at Android Police. With a background in AI and data science, he enjoys making technical topics approachable for those ...