The joy of working
Harvey Mackay
There was once a high school teacher who supplemented his income by writing short stories. He liked to teach, but he loved to write. He later wrote the first few pages of a story about a teenager with psychic powers and threw it in the trash. But his wife retrieved it and encouraged him to finish it. The teacher was Stephen King, and the story became his first published novel, "Carrie."
King has written more than 50 novels, and here is how he describes his career: "I've made a great deal of dough from my fiction, but I never set a single word down on paper with the thought of being paid for it … I have written because it fulfilled me … I did it for the pure joy of the thing. And if you can do it for joy, you can do it forever."
The most joyful people are those who discover that what they should be doing and what they are doing are the same thing. People naturally seek joy because joy connects people more powerfully than almost any other human experience.
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