Coulter, Catherine, 70

  Countdown, 52

  Covey, Stephen, 22, 23

  COVID-19 pandemic, 4, 64, 69, 232–33, 238, 269, 277

  creativity, 187–88

  Crime Scene Cleaning, 152

  Crofter and the Laird, The (McPhee), 82

  Cromer, Bruce, 120

  curb cuts, 290–91

  Curie, Madame, 187

  curiosity, invention of, 36

  D

  Dark Angel, 133

  Daufuskie Island, 185

  Daunay, Ariel, 142–43, 192

  Davis, Deniese, 219, 272–73, 288

  Davis, Jefferson, 23

  Davis, Ninah, 197, 200, 296

  Davis, Shardé, 167–70, 214

  Day, Dorothy, 172

  Deadliest Catch, 74, 231

  decisions, 158, 167

  looking back on, 218–19

  time and, 213–18

  wrong, gift of, 299–302

  Defense of Marriage Act, 39

  Delarato, Laura, 96, 105–6, 149

  Deloitte, 251

  Delsarte, François, 125

  Democratic National Committee (DNC), 74, 163

  Deuce, The, 121

  Dev, Sonali, 69–70, 189, 278–79

  “Digging” (Heaney), 139–40

  digging versus climbing, 291–92

  dignity, 187

  disabilities, 72–73, 195–96, 216–17, 290–91

  Discovery, 142, 215

  Disney, 45, 46, 65

  diverse workers, 22–24, 59, 71, 125–26, 131, 169, 233, 291

  doctors, 186, 187

  Donovan, Chris, 113–15, 128–29, 172, 210, 272

  Douglass, Frederick, 135

  doula work, 91, 259, 292

  dramatis personae, 158

  drinking straw, 290

  Drucker, Peter, 22, 48

  Du Bois, W. E. B., 135

  Dunwoody College of Technology, 67

  Dutton, Jane, 191–92

  E

  Eco, Umberto, 54

  economy, 48, 60–61, 234

  ecotone, 284

  edge, centering, 284, 290, 291

  edge effect, 284

  Education, Department of, 238

  Edwards, Blake, 190

  Edwards, Cindy, 142, 230

  “Elephant’s Child, The” (Kipling), 153

  Ellison, Ralph, 234

  email, 290

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 285, 292

  emotions, 192–93

  Emre, Merve, 122–23

  entrepreneurship, 92

  Entwined Destinies (Washington), 183

  environments, 254

  see also where

  Epic of America, The (Adams), 285

  epitaphs, 264

  escape, 249–50

  Evita, 51, 52

  experience-taking, 258

  F

  Facebook, 195, 238, 280

  family, 99

  Family Caregiver Alliance, 99

  Fantoni, Carolina, 289–90

  farming, 87–88

  agricultural economy, 35–37, 40, 41, 47, 58, 82

  Farr, Jamie, 52

  Faulkner, William, 275

  FBI, 44–45, 65, 210

  Feiler, Edwin J., Jr. (author’s father), 180, 299–300

  Feiler, Jane Abeshouse (author’s mother), 180, 300

  Figgins, Rusty, 276

  firefighting, 281–82

  fishing, 74, 201–3, 231

  fitness, 267–69

  Floyd, George, 236

  Fly for the Culture, 189

  Foley, John, 269

  follow your bliss, 62–65

  Forbes, 135

  foster care, 159–61

  Franklin, Benjamin, 111–12, 116–18, 123, 256

  Freud, Sigmund, 249

  Friends, 167, 168

  Friendship Missionary Baptist Church, 98

  From Behind the Veil (Stepto), 135–36

  From Mumbai to Maine, 172

  Furstenberg, Diane von, 174

  future, 153

  and being at a moment in life, 218–21

  and best advice for oneself right now, 280–82

  in meaning audit, 136, 149–54

  place in, 237–41

  purpose and, 259–62

  what you want to do in, 197–200

  who you want to be in, 174–78

  Future Forum, 233

  G

  Galbraith, John Kenneth, 22

  Gallagher, Dan, 69, 163, 189

  Game Management (Leopold), 284

  Garbinsky, Emily, 152

  García Márquez, Gabriel, 209

  Garden Marcus, 165

  Gates, Bill, 76

  Gauthier, Andrew, 74, 163, 275

  GE, 8

  GE Healthcare Global Services, 278

  General Hospital, 53

  Genesis, Book of, 209

  Gen X, 59–60, 286

  Gen Z, 286

  Glassdoor, 233

  Gloria Dawn, 201

  Gold, Morgan, 86–88, 92, 164

  Goldman Sachs, 280

  Gold Shaw Farm, 87–88, 164

  Goodall, Jane, 197

  Google, 176

  Gore, Al, 144

  Gotham Taxidermy, 79, 231

  Green, Kirsten, 89–91, 259, 292

  Greenlaw, Linda, 201–3, 221

  Groening, Matt, 86

  Gullah Sweetgrass Baskets, 128

  Gutierrez, Sonia, 93

  Gym-N-Eat Crickets, 79, 163, 216

  H

  Hannah Boden, 202

  happiness, 65, 70, 94, 97, 113, 116, 136, 193, 213

  and following your bliss, 62–65

  ghost jobs and, 101

  meaning and, 153

  side jobs and, 92, 94

  Haring, Keith, 187

  “Harlem (A Dream Deferred)” (Hughes), 212

  Harlem Renaissance, 184

  HBO, 121, 122, 219

  Heaney, Seamus, 139–40

  helplessness, 249–51

  Here, Right Matters (Vindman), 206

  Herold, Alexandra, 195–97

  Heumann, Judy, 216–17, 221, 290

  Hewlett Foundation, 272

  Heying, Cathy, 66–68, 236–37, 257

  Hirsch, Jacob, 78–79

  Home (Andrews), 190

  Homeland Elegies (Akhtar), 157

  homelessness, 172, 259

  Home Loan Company, 179, 180

  Home Work (Andrews), 190, 191

  Honest Company, 134–35

  Hong, Cathy Park, 103–4

  hooks, bell, 284

  Horton, Maura, 196

  Houdini, Harry, 186

  House of My Own, A (Cisneros), 223

  House on Mango Street, The (Cisneros), 224

  how, 153–54, 263–82

  best advice for oneself right now, 280–82

  best advice received about work, 270–74

  and permission to change, 274–79

  How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), 23, 125

  Hu, Jing, 78–79

  Huber, Richard, 117

  Hughes, Langston, 184, 212, 285

  Hungry Ocean, The (Greenlaw), 201, 203

  Hurricane Grace, 202

  Hurston, Zora Neale, 184

  I

  Ibarra, Herminia, 203

  IBM, 94, 105, 173, 232, 278

  Idaho National Laboratory, 198

  identity, 249

  Imagine: A Center for Coping with Loss, 247

  immersion, narratives of, 135–36, 142

  Indigo Arts Alliance, 141

  individual versus collective, 292–94

  industrial and manufacturing work, 37, 40, 41, 47, 83

  injustice, 249, 251

  internet accessibility, 73

  intimacy coordination, 120–22, 129, 214, 273

  invention of curiosity, 36

  inventions, 41, 289–90

  Invisible Man (Ellison), 234

  Irwin, Steve, 215

  J

  Jackson, Michael, 46

  Jackson, Stonewall, 23

  Japan, 207–8

  Jaws, 189

  Jenkins, Beverly, 181–85, 210, 293

  Jepsen, David, 129, 130

  jobs, 24–25, 54, 80, 81–107

  books about, 50

  caregiving, 25, 97–100

  changing of, 50, 203

  crafting of, 191

  creation of new types of, 42, 54

  first, 64

  ghost, 25, 101–6

  hope, 25, 93–97

  household, 85

  jobless, 88

  main, 25, 86–89, 92, 94

  number of, per person, 83–85

  quitting of, 3–4, 233, 266

  redesigning of, 4

  roles viewed as, 84–85

  side, 25, 89–93, 94

  top-down model of, 191

  unpaid, 84–85, 92, 95, 97, 99

  use and definition of word, 83, 84

  see also career; work

  Jobs, Steve, 77

  Johnson & Johnson, 8–9, 278

  Jones, Daphne, 105, 255, 278

  Jordan, Michael, 188

  Journal of Negro History, 182, 183

  Junger, Sebastian, 202–3

  Jurassic Park, 68

  Just So Stories (Kipling), 153

  K

  kaleidoscope, 106–7

  Kaufman, Geoff, 258

  Kehrmann, Carrie, 263

  Kennedy, Florynce, 297

  Keynes, John Maynard, 83

  Keystone Pipeline, 95

  Kim, Sang, 92, 192, 216, 230

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 212

  Kipling, Rudyard, 153

  Kipling questions, 153–54, 180, 254, 265, 280

  answers to, 297–99

  see also how; what; when; where; who; why

  Kissinger, Henry, 205

  Knight, Phil, 256

  knowledge work, 40, 48

  Kothary, Nishita, 194, 210

  Krause, Aaron, 165–66, 256

  Krause, Todd, 62–65

  Kuehn, Kathleen, 95

  Kwok, Wei-Tai, 143–45, 148, 152, 219

  L

  Labor Department, 60, 83

  Ladies’ Home Journal, 153

  LA Underground Cat Network, 195

  Lear, Norman, 79, 172, 173

  Leaving Neverland, 46

  Leonardo da Vinci, 47

  Leopold, Aldo, 283–84

  Levine, Jamie, 74–75

  Levinson, Daniel, 170

  Libby, Lisa, 258

  life

  success and, 116