{"id":395,"date":"2011-01-11T11:02:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T18:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/?p=395"},"modified":"2011-08-24T19:58:18","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T02:58:18","slug":"the-happy-lawyer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/the-happy-lawyer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Happy Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Law professors Nancy Levit and Douglas Linder have just published a valuable guide for lawyers of any age.\u00a0 Before you read on, I invite you to take a most interesting little quiz (derived from the findings in this book) which appeared in the ABA Journal<\/a>.\u00a0 How important is money to lawyers’ happiness?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do the most satisfied lawyers come from the “top tier” law school?\u00a0 (Speaking of which, check out the recent New York Times story <\/a>about the competition among law schools to get those coveted -and misleading-U.S News ratings.)\u00a0\u00a0Lawyers’ ability to be happy is\u00a0challenged on many fronts.\u00a0 The assaults on well-being by the competitive law school environment;\u00a0 lawyers’ natural penchant for pessimistic thinking as described by Martin Seliman, Ph.D<\/a>, the “Father of Positive Psychology”; the demands on a person’s time that\u00a0are driven by the need to earn the funds to cover a six-figure student loan and the general lack of civility <\/a>in legal culture and some of the most notable examples.\u00a0 Keeping a handle on\u00a0personal relationships is so critical for personal well-being – as is the commitment not to lose connection with one’s own particular life passions.\u00a0 Achieving balance between professional and personal needs is ranked by lawyers of the millennial generation as their highest value.\u00a0Levit and Linder<\/a> provide a wonderful array of tips and wisdom for high achieving lawyers who feel their lives slipping through their fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Law professors Nancy Levit and Douglas Linder have just published a valuable guide for lawyers of any age.\u00a0 Before you read on, I invite you to take a most interesting little quiz (derived from the findings in this book) which appeared in the ABA Journal.\u00a0 How important is money to lawyers’ happiness?\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Do the most Continue reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27],"tags":[17,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":412,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395\/revisions\/412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/josephshaub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}