Well, it that if one is to make the journey worthwhile, one needs to structure the process of an activity so it has value. Learning and enjoying along the way could be a happy accident but I suspect this happy accident was far likely before our society reached the point that it could structure every waking moment of a given person's life with the purpose of reaching a single goal (a description that could apply to 14 year old gymnast, the 20-something entrepreneur or the aging Amazon warehouse worker).
There are obvious steps that can be taken here.
* Work hard but not so hard you're squeezing the life out of yourself.
* Take time to evaluate your success and failure and how much you've progressed
* Work on a project that involves other people so you can experience camaraderie in the result.
* Think about the "next step" for everyone or a large portion, of those involved.
College and graduate have a lot of these qualities, though they seem to be fading over time. Work in a large organization can sometimes have this quality depending on the quality of the organization. Work in startup or as an entrepreneur seems to demand the person or organization can create the qualities themselves. Work for uber or in low-level retail can have none of these qualities and the individuals for it.
And in society as a whole, we're suffering for the lack of these things.
There are obvious steps that can be taken here.
* Work hard but not so hard you're squeezing the life out of yourself.
* Take time to evaluate your success and failure and how much you've progressed
* Work on a project that involves other people so you can experience camaraderie in the result.
* Think about the "next step" for everyone or a large portion, of those involved.
College and graduate have a lot of these qualities, though they seem to be fading over time. Work in a large organization can sometimes have this quality depending on the quality of the organization. Work in startup or as an entrepreneur seems to demand the person or organization can create the qualities themselves. Work for uber or in low-level retail can have none of these qualities and the individuals for it.
And in society as a whole, we're suffering for the lack of these things.