A question from "The Book of Questions" by Gregory Stock, PH.D.
I will put up a random question every week on Wednesday from this book for everyone to respond to. I'm hoping to get some interesting, enlightening and hopefully candid responses, either in text format or video. This will be an interesting social experiment amongst the Live Video community. I'm hoping that it will spark conversation and hopefully some intellectual debate.
This weeks question is #16 - Would you rather be extremely successful professionally and have a tolerable yet unexciting private life, or have an extremely happy private life and only a tolerable and uninspiring professional life?*
Follow-up Question: Since so many place great emphasis on a happy private life, why do people often wind up putting more energy into their professional lives? If you feel your private life is more important to you, do your priorities support this? Are you simply unwilling to admit that work is more important? Do you use work as a substitute? Do you hope professional success will somehow magically lead to personal happiness?
Remember, there are no rules, just be real, and feel free to comment on someone elses response, because that is what this is all about.
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