Discerning Your Vocation

Poet W.H. Auden reminds us that discerning your vocation is simpler than you think. Chase what gives you "that eye-on-the-object look."

You need not see what someone is doingto know if it is his vocation,you have only to watch his eyes:a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeonmaking a primary incision,a clerk completing a bill of lading,wear the same rapt expression,forgetting themselves in a function.How beautiful it is,that eye-on-the-object look.

HT: Dan Pink, Drive