Two empirical concepts come to mind when thinking about quiet quitting: proactivepersonalityand job crafting.Proactive personalityis an individual’s tendency to engage in proactive behaviors; individuals with this trait are driven to intentionally change their circumstances and/or environments to bring ...
Prior to the 19th century, science was not something that a person “went into” to make a living, the way one might go into medicine, or law, or the clergy. There were no institutions for training scientists, no ways of accrediting them, no (or almost no) paying jobs for...