Skovoroda

¶ Skovoroda said happiness is work that suits your nature. What if your nature suits work nobody pays for?

Hryhorii Skovoroda, the eighteenth-century wanderer, turned down post after post and spent the last decades of his life on the road with a few books. His central idea is srodnist, usually translated "congeniality" or "kinship": each of us is suited by nature…