What does it mean to love our work?

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The most direct answer to this question is that we love our work when it contributes to our happiness.

But this answer needs clarification and concreteness — the ideas of love and happiness are too broad, and there are too many misconceptions around them.

This is the first of a series of posts that will explore these misconceptions to give a clear, concrete answer to the question of what it really means to love our work.

Here are all the other posts in the series:

• What does it mean to love our work? It’s not about success (Part I)
• What does it mean to love our work? It’s not about success (Part II)
• If you need to have “fun” at work, you probably don’t love it