On asking questions, being competitive, and restarting careers
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 09, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Focus on the outcomes you deliver, not on the effort you put in -
That is how your productivity will grow, along with your value.”
II.
"Learning to find the right answer matters when you start a career,
Learning to ask the right question matters even more as you grow. "
III.
"The easiest way to create time for yourself from endless online scrolling?
If it doesn't teach you OR inspire you OR make you laugh - Mute It!"
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Andrew S Grove, ex-CEO of Intel and 1997 Time Magazine 'Man of the Year', in his book - High Output Management:
"You have to accept that no matter where you work, you are not an employee—you are in a business with one employee: yourself. You are in competition with millions of similar businesses. There are millions of others all over the world, picking up the pace, capable of doing the same work that you can do and perhaps more eager to do it.
Now, you may be tempted to look around your workplace and point to your fellow workers as rivals, but they are not. They are outnumbered—a thousand to one, one hundred thousand to one, a million to one—by people who work for organizations that compete with your firm. So if you want to work and continue to work, you must continually dedicate yourself to retaining your individual competitive advantage."
Source: Book: High Output Management by Andrew Grove
II.
Pablo Picasso, prolific Spanish painter and sculptor, on doing the work :
"He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law...
...Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them."
Source: Quote: Pablo Picasso
1 Question
If you could restart your career today afresh without any financial loss, would you pick the same one? If not, then can you build a path to the one where you want to go?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times