&gt; satisfaction through doing great work<p>The org psych term for this is &quot;engagement&quot;.<p><pre><code>    https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Employee_engagement
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Operationally &quot;satisfaction&quot; is an all encompassing term, that doesn&#x27;t really relate to specific factors. So while you might be &quot;satisfied&quot; with your bank manager, you may not want to 
marry her.<p>Engagement speaks of something more: A satisfaction (if you will) derived specifically from doing your work.<p>As an interesting aside, engagement is theoretically the other side of the coin of &quot;burnout&quot; and is physiologically thought to operate on the same mechanisms as &quot;stress&quot; (or &quot;eustress&quot; to distinguish it positively).<p>A &quot;satisfied&quot; state relates more to a relaxed, unstressed, disengaged mentality.<p>Favourite example from one of my textbooks was a lion chasing a gazelle: Both are physiologically experiencing the same thing, but the gazelle is &quot;stressed&quot; whereas the lion is &quot;engaged&quot;.