Work and Happiness
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The work environment and how a man feels at work plays a big role on his happiness. W.H. Auden and Bertrand Russell are two people who wrote about work and happiness. W.H. Auden took some of his favorite passages from other people's books and created one of the most unusual works, "A Certain World: A Commonplace Book." Bertrand Russell wrote a book called, "The Conquest of Happiness," that talks about work, leisure, and happiness.
"Work therefore is desirable, first and foremost, as a preventive of boredom, for the boredom that a man feels when he is doing necessary though uninteresting work is as nothing in comparison with the boredom that he feels when he has nothing to do with his days," written by Russell in his, "The Conquest to Happiness." In this passage Russell is trying to explain that if a man is bored and unhappy with his job, it does not compare to having to do at all with his day...