bobby_tersy has given very practical and interesting insights.
100% jot fit is not possible indeed and one has to strive for excellence not perfection like in other management disciplines. Artists are the worst sufferers in my view and environment and personality cannot always compensate. From the point of view of "Success is getting what you have got but happiness is wanting what you have got" also , you have written well but does one have the stamina to do that(unfulfilling work)for a lifetime?( American gentleman in one of my posts above suffered a bankruptcy and divorce to change his profession. He was so fed up)
Maslow's hierarchy is more of a perception- food, clothing, shelter, social affiliation, self-actualization which is true in a certain context. I had written my first article "Don't settle for less than a calling"(a title choen by the editor) in November'2001. In 2002, I bumped into a book called "Karma, Destiny and Career" by Nanette Hucknall some of the contents of which are:-
," To know the self is to know your own spirit. The work one selects is most important as it always helps the soul to go to another level of maturity. It is necessary to look into your inner self to discover your true life work. Emotional blocks may exist with roots in this life or past life or both. These blocks can prevent people from discovering their true your vocation. For the growth of each soul, it is important to experience all the areas of knowledge with a sense of achievement. Our souls must feel that we have done the best work possible whether as mail clerks or Senators.
"No matter how important or well paying your job is, if it is not your life's work, you will always find something wrong with it. The experience of wholeness or inner peace comes only when one is fulfilling one's full potential"
Though she has devoted chapters in the end about how the family and friends have to suffer when the concerned person has to go "back to school", I thought that all this was too far-fetched.After that, I have come across so many consultants and so many Amrericans writing books on the subject that one wonders whether or not this too is a basic need?People are miserable despite monetary and achievements and doing crazy sswitch overs.
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People keep looking for "meaningful work" despite being well established. Perhaps this too is a basic need and Maslow needs a review or maybe Indians will start behaving like Americans after we are developed enough and can think beyond "Roti, Kapda aur Makaan". Somebody told me that just as one climbs the different floors of a buliding and a different view of the ground is seen from each floor,human needs and wants change as we go through life snd situations. Since HRD is about people that is what it should stand for -HAPPINESS REPEATEDLY DEFINED. As a majority of waking hours are spent at work, this is critical anyway.