CHAPTER 7
What Drives Your Work
You Are What You Do
If you were to ask someone from the Middle Ages all the way up to the mid-1700s, “So, what do you do?,” you’d likely get a look of bewilderment, and quite possibly one of two answers. Either “What do you mean by asking what I do? I . . . live. Just like everyone else!” Or if you press for specifics, you’d get a long list; “I fetch water, plow, plant, hunt, gather, sew, wash . . .” and so on. Most people lived a very similar lifestyle of farming and making handcrafted goods necessary for life’s very existence. While you might have someone with a particular skill like blacksmithing or making pottery, everyone was engaged in the same daily activities, which primarily revolved around the acquisition ...
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