Graham captures something often missed in the standard "follow your passion" advice: that meaning and pleasure aren't separate destinations but the same thing. Most people chase joy through comfort or leisure, yet she suggests that purpose itself *is* the fun—not some distant reward you'll collect once you've made it. Consider a nurse who stays in an understaffed hospital ward because her patients need her; she's often exhausted, yet reports deeper satisfaction than the wealthy tourist who's checked every box on their bucket list. Graham, who steered the *Washington Post* through Watergate when easier paths abounded, knew that mattering to something larger than yourself turns work into something else entirely.