Hidden Lesson 1 Engagement

The first hidden lesson is what we will call engagement or what Stanley called vocation. After careful analysis of the results of his study, Stanley found that many of the 733 millionaires worked in areas they found profoundly engaging, work they profoundly loved. Over and over again, the millionaires answered their questionnaires, interviews, and focus groups with tales of love for their work. Their work was not a job it was a vocation or a calling. 

The lessons of engagement and flow are rather interesting, and some might be tempted to call them yet other platitudes. Yet, love of work (engagement) and interwoven complexity (flow) are not particularly common themes. In fact, many people get it exactly backward. Many people say that they will work at jobs and tasks they don t like so they can earn enough money to do what they love millionaires and successful, happy people the world over know this to be largely 180 out of phase. 

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