Mark Gerson shares timeless, practical insights about work–sourced from the Bible and supported by modern social science.

— YOU’LL LEARN — 

1) Why Bible has helpful gems for folks from all religion–or lack thereof 

2) The one question that leads to greater meaning 

3) The optimal number of hours to work in a week

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— ABOUT MARK — 

Mark Gerson, a New York–based entrepreneur and philanthropist, is the cofounder of Gerson Lehrman Group, 3I Members, United Hatzalah of Israel, and African Mission Healthcare—where he and his wife, Rabbi Erica Gerson, made the largest gift ever to Christian medical missionaries.

A graduate of Williams College and Yale Law School, Mark is the author of the national bestseller The Telling: How Judaism’s Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life. Mark’s articles and essays on subjects ranging from Frank Sinatra to the biblical Jonah to the Torah and science of clothing have been published in The New Republic, USA Today, Commentary, and Christian Broadcast Network. Mark lives with his wife and their four children.

• Book: God Was Right: How Modern Social Science Proves the Torah Is True 

• Email: Mark@GodWasRight.com 

• Website: GodWasRight.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW — 

• Study: “Crafting a Job: Revisioning Employees as Active Crafters of Their Work” by Amy Wrzesniewski and Jane E. Dutton 

• Study: “Job crafting: A meta-analysis of relationships with individual differences, job characteristics, and work outcomes” by Cort W. Rudolph, Ian M. Katz, Kristi N. Lavigne, and Hannes Zacher 

• Study: “The Productivity of Working Hours” by John Pencavel 

• Study: “Global, regional, and national burdens of ischemic heart disease and stroke attributable to exposure to long working hours for 194 countries, 2000–2016: A systematic analysis from the WHO/ILO Joint Estimates of the Work-related Burden of Disease and Injury” by Frank Pega et al. 

• Study: “Enclothed cognition” by Hajo Adam and Adam D. Galinsky 

• Study: “Sartorial Symbols of Social Class Elicit Class-Consistent Behavioral and Physiological Responses: A Dyadic Approach” by Michael W. Kraus and Wendy Berry Mendes 

• Study: “That Swimsuit Becomes You: Sex Differences in Self-Objectification, Restrained Eating, and Math Performance” by Barbara L. Fredrickson, Tomi-Ann Roberts, Stephanie M. Noll, Diane M. Quinn, and Jean M. Twenge

• Video: Selective attention test 

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• Past episode: 327: Unclog Your Brain through Unfocusing with Dr. Srini Pillay 

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