Work has changed its role in our lives over centuries. Once a necessity, then a calling, and now a quest for meaning. Recently, whilst watching The Great (a satiral dramady loosely based on the rise to power of Catherine the Great), I was reminded of how ideas from the Enlightenment still echo in our modern search for purpose. But how did we come to expect work to carry so much weight? And, a more important question, should we expect we expect work to provide purpose? The Ancient Idea: A...