Does loving your job really make work feel effortless?

Dobrow, Shoshana R. ORCID: 0000-0002-3068-0129 and Kappes, Heather Barry ORCID: 0000-0002-6335-3888 (2025) Does loving your job really make work feel effortless? Management (28 Jan 2025). Blog Entry.

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Abstract

The popular saying, “Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life,” suggests that pursuing work based on your passion eliminates the potential drudgery of labour. This idea may have inspired many to pursue meaningful work, but empirical evidence on its validity has been scarce—until now. Our study, published in the Journal of Management Scientific Reports with our collaborator Professor Jennifer Tosti-Kharas, set out to test some of the fundamental assumptions inherent in advice as well as theory about experiencing a “calling” toward your work.

Item Type:	Online resource (Blog Entry)
Official URL:	https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/management/
Additional Information:	© 2025 The Author(s)
Divisions:	Management
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Date Deposited:	12 Feb 2025 15:42
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2025 15:42
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/127254

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