work and, 63, 70–75, 85, 99, 116

  Life Is in the Transitions (Feiler), 13

  lifequakes, 2, 58, 71

  life stories, 18

  Life Story Project, 13, 18–19, 58, 60, 146

  Lift Garage, 68, 236, 237, 257

  Likely, Nygil, 97–99, 278

  LinkedIn, 141, 277, 301

  Lion King, The, 69, 251

  literature, 36–37

  Lively, Kelly, 96, 105, 198–200

  Living Playgrounds, 239

  location, see where

  Loewald, Hans, 162

  Lorde, Audre, 106

  Lorenz, Edward, 68

  Louisiana State University (LSU), 32

  Lowly Worm, 81–82, 85

  Ludovici, Lisa, 214

  Luke’s Lobster, 215, 257, 294

  Lutwack, Leonard, 228–29

  M

  Mad, 86

  Madison Buffalo Jump, 94–95

  Malik, Harmit, 96, 148, 295

  management science, 41

  Manalo, Annabelle, 188

  Mansbach, Jodi, 238–39, 255–56

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

  Marden, Orison Swett, 123–24

  Mary Poppins, 190

  Massachusetts Small Business Development Center, 272

  Mastrantonio, Mary Elizabeth, 203

  math, 36, 41

  Matthew, Gospel of, 246–47

  McAdams, Dan, 130

  McCallum, Jamie, 83

  McClure’s, 123

  McNair Scholars Program, 168

  McPhee, John, 82

  meaning, 5, 26, 85, 106, 116, 249

  ABCs of, 146–49

  care jobs and, 100

  happiness and, 153

  main job and, 86

  money and, 78–79, 294–95

  side jobs and, 92

  vacuum of, 152

  and where we work, 233, 237

  see also why

  meaning audit, 133–54, 266

  future in, 136, 149–54

  past in, 136, 137–43

  present in, 136, 143–49

  mediumship, 93, 277

  Mencken, H. L., 124

  Mendez, Jasminne, 216, 256, 296

  Mercer, 63

  Merton, Robert, 186, 187

  Metoxen, Kirby, 100, 250

  MetricStream, 173, 232

  MFG Texas, 69

  Michigan State University, 181, 182

  Microsoft, 73, 214, 257

  Miles, Richard, Jr., 260–62

  Miles of Freedom, 262

  millennials, 60, 61, 286

  minor feelings, 103–4

  Minter, Daniel, 141, 287

  “Mirrors, Windows, and Sliding Glass Doors” (Bishop), 241

  MIT Sloan Management Review, 233

  money, 116, 249

  in definition of job, 84

  in ghost jobs, 104–6

  meaning and, 78–79, 294–95

  success and, 75–80, 117, 128, 294, 295

  superworkquakes and, 78

  Montage of a Dream Deferred (Hughes), 212

  moonlighting, 91

  Morrison, Toni, 182, 292–93, 297

  motivation, 181, 197, 214, 244

  see also why

  MTV, 134

  Mueller, Robert, 45

  multidimensional workforce, 24

  multilayered work and life experience, 24–25

  multishaped work experience, 25

  N

  Napoleon, 264

  narratives, 13, 54, 103, 143

  of ascent, 135–36, 142

  autobiographical, 13, 129–30

  in career construction, 26

  grand, 54

  of immersion, 135–36, 142

  in psychology and psychotherapy, 6, 18, 129, 249

  see also story, storytelling

  NASA, 8, 9, 199

  Natal+Home, 197

  National Bank of Canada, 79, 163

  National Career Development Association, 129

  National Museum of American History, 264

  Native Americans, 94–95, 118, 166, 182, 195, 250, 292, 293

  Negro History Week, 182

  Neo-Futurists, 231

  Netflix, 195, 293

  network, 40

  neuroscience, 129

  New Thought, 123

  New York City, 42, 231, 235

  New York Daily News, 217

  New York Times, 88, 121, 153–54

  Nichols, Lauren, 69, 93, 209, 277

  Night Song (Jenkins), 184

  Nike, 256, 268

  9/11 attacks, 45, 52, 63

  Nineteen Eight-Four (Orwell), 209

  Ninja Sex Party, 214

  Nixon, Richard, 143, 145

  Noel, Karen, 105, 194, 236

  nomads, 58

  Northwest Renewable Energy Institute, 238

  Nowland, Wynne, 176–78, 194, 211

  NPR, 279

  numbers related to work, 34–37, 54, 82, 116, 294

  O

  Oculus, 280

  Olbermann, Keith, 52

  Oliver, Mary, 26

  O’Loughlin, Brian, 251–52

  One Hundred Years of Solitude (García Márquez), 209

  Orlando, Connie, 272–73

  Orwell, George, 209

  Outside, 202

  P

  Paradise Lost (Milton), 248

  parenting, 99

  parents, 26, 187

  stories inherited from, 189–90

  values learned from, 162–67, 187

  Park, Meroë, 14–16, 25, 65, 234–35, 276

  Parsons, Frank, 23, 42–43, 49–50, 125, 129

  Partnership for Public Service, 276

  Parton, Dolly, 51, 101

  passion, following, 62–65

  past, 153

  best work advice received in, 270–74

  favorite places in childhood, 228–32

  in meaning audit, 136, 137–43

  role models in, 185–90

  start of work story in, 207–12

  “toothache” in childhood, 248–53

  values learned from parents in, 162–67, 187

  pastoralists, 58

  patents, 41

  Patti + Ricky, 196

  Peale, Norman Vincent, 23

  Peloton, 269

  Peña, Brijette, 1–3, 25, 65, 79

  People, 134, 184

  Perfect Storm, The (book and film), 202–3

  permission to change, 274–79

  personal archaeology, 137–43, 149, 153

  personality

  character and, 122–23

  success and, 119–26, 131

  tests of, 48

  Personality Brokers, The (Emre), 122–23

  Peterson, Nathaniel “Coyote,” 189, 215

  Philadelphia (magazine), 210

  Pierpont, Tim, 137–39, 141, 152, 214, 276–77

  Pierpont Painting, 139, 276–77

  place, see where

  plan, ten-year, 65–70

  Plath, Sylvia, 209

  Plato, 42

  Playboy, 215

  PNC Bank, 211–12

  policing, 220

  Power of Positive Thinking, The (Peale), 23

  present, 153

  best and worst things about your work in, 190–97

  in meaning audit, 136, 143–49

  permission to change in, 274–79

  stories in, 253–58

  taking next step in, 212–18

  waymaker in, 167–74

  where you want to be now, 232–37

  Presley, Elvis, 102

  Project HOME, 172

  Project Runway, 115

  ProShares, 87

  Proverbs, Book of, 212

  Prudential, 246, 247

  Pryor, Richard, 52

  psychology and psychotherapy, 6, 18, 129, 249

  purpose, 259–62

  see also why

  Q

  Queer Cosmos, 174, 231

  questions, see Kipling questions

  Quinlan, Larry, 251

  Quinn, Aaron, 148–49, 281–82

  QVC, 166

  R

  Rae, Issa, 219, 273

  Ragged Dick (Alger), 118

  Rainbows for All Children, 246, 247

  Ramirez, Ebony Peay, 280

  Ravilochan, Teju, 258, 289

  Ray, Derrick, 74, 192, 231

  reading the clock, 213, 216, 218

  reading the room, 213, 214, 218

  reading your gut, 213–14, 218

  real estate, 226–28

  Reeves, Jordan, 235

  Refinery29, 281

  refugees, 38–39, 65, 296

  Rendell, Ed, 259

  representation, 188

  résumés, 44, 47, 49–50, 54, 152

  Rich, John, 102

  Richard Miles Act, 262

  Ringgold, Faith, 297

  risk, 216, 218–20

  Robert-Houdin, Jean-Eugène, 186

  Roberts, Ed, 290

  Robinson, Mary, 244–48

  Rock, Chris, 52

  Rodgers, Daniel, 116–17

  Rodis, Alicia, 119–22, 128, 214, 273

  Rodriguez, Carolina Guillen, 225–28

  Rodriguez, Ericka, 197–98, 200

  role models, 27, 254

  Role of Place in Literature, The (Lutwack), 228–29

  romance novels, 70, 183–84, 278–79

  Romance Writers of America, 184, 278–79

  Rosehaven (Coulter), 70

  running, 267

  Running Wolf, Michael, 94–96, 292

  safecracking, 240

  S

  Salk, Jonas, 154

  San Diego Seed Company, 2–3, 65

  Santore, Charlie, 239–40

  Sapelo, 142

  Saudi Arabia, 52

  Savage, Courtland, 189, 192–93, 209

  Savickas, Mark, 130–32, 186

  Scarry, Richard, 81–82

  Schkolnick, Meyer, 186

  Scott, Cherie, 171–72, 210

  scripts, 5, 131, 189–90, 253, 254, 262

  work, 5, 253–54, 291

  script theory, 253

  scriptures, 6, 22, 26, 55, 135, 190, 229, 254

  work, 5, 137, 158, 291

  Scrub Daddy, 166, 256

  Scullion, Mary, 172, 259

  Seasons of a Man’s Life, The (Levinson), 170

  sedentists, 58

  Seinfeld, Jerry, 57

  self-care, 104, 105

  self-employment, 92

  self-reliance, 292–93