Your Sorting Hat: 100% commitments, quitting over coping and one minute start
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 01, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Stuck at a problem? Reframe it.
Design Thinking teaches Reframing as a skill to generate options, opportunities and learning.
For example - 3 reframes of one problem here triggers different thoughts
I need to find a job to pay my rent.
I need to find money to pay my rent.
I need to find a place to stay while I find a job."
II.
"For changes to succeed - follow the 100% commitment rule.
Consider a change like going vegetarian or stopping smoking or being trustworthy. These are easy examples to see why a 90% or even a 99% commitment does not work.
When you commit fully, you shift your identity. This makes the change permanent, removes decision fatigue and gets you both - opportunities and rewards."
III.
"A story has power when it resonates and gets the audience to agree.
Thus powerful story-telling at work begins much before you speak.
First know each audience, and then craft your message and story."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Seth Godin, American author, talks about quitting in different ways in his book - The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit:
"The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers...
..Never quit something with great long-term potential just because you can’t deal with the stress of the moment..
..All coping does is waste your time and misdirect your energy. If the best you can do is cope, you’re better off quitting."
Source: Book: The Dip by Seth Godin
II.
Rafael Nadal, current all time men's singles Grand Slam record holder in tennis, shares his perspective on humility in his autobiography - Rafa: My Story -
"People sometimes exaggerate this business of humility. It’s a question simply of knowing who you are, where you are, and that the world will continue exactly as it is without you."
Source: Book: Rafa by Rafael Nadal
1 Question
Pick a project that you have been putting off - like writing that book or walking daily. What is the first step that you can take in less than one minute? Write one sentence. Walk 100 metres. Today.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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