The ObservatoryMeaning in work
Whether the work tasks feel significant and valuable.
Questions to ask yourself
- 1How meaningful does what you do at work feel?
- 2Who or what is better off because you do your job?
- 3Which parts of the work feel the emptiest?
- 4Was it more meaningful before? If so, what has changed?
- 5How could you get a little more of the meaningful part into your week?
In the app, you rate the area 0–10, answer the questions, and watch how your answers shift over time.
Getting started
Article
What occupational well-being actually measures
Pay and title are the easiest things to measure, and seldom what decides how you feel at work. Here is what research points to instead.
2 min · Rationality
Exercise
The ikigai map
Map where what you love, what you are good at and what someone needs overlap. Not to find a magic answer, but to see where it is worth digging.
15 min · Rationality
Exercise
From value to action
Clarify a core value in one life area and choose a small action that lives it, today.
10 min · Discipline
Exercise
More than your job
When your whole self-image lives at work, every setback there becomes a threat to all of you. Give the other parts of you their place.
10 min · Compassion
Exercise
An action that counts
Turn a value you carry into a concrete step this week.
10 min · Discipline
Tool
The work compass
A standing tool: hold your job and your choices up against what matters most to you
10 min · Rationality