Your Sorting Hat: About skills and options, how givers succeed and reviewing this year
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Dec 20, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Hold on to your job when markets are down
Negotiate harder when the market rises."
II.
"Each extra skill that you master next year, will buy you more career options -
And freedom to choose work income, location, timings and even a work break."
III.
"A team leader wins the most when individual team mates win -
This includes coaching team mates and holding them accountable."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Julie Smith, clinical psychologist, deconstructs thoughts, emotions and belief in her bestseller - Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before?:
"Thoughts are not facts. They are a mix of opinions, judgements, stories, memories, theories, interpretations, and predictions about the future...
..Emotions are your brain’s attempt to explain and attach meaning to what is going on in your world and your body...
..The thing about the human brain is that, when you believe something, the brain will scan the environment for any signs that the belief is true."
Source: Book: Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before by Julie Smith
II.
Adam Grant, popular author and Wharton Professor, talks about how by growing the pie, more Givers succeed at the workplace than Matchers or Takers, in his book - Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success -
"This is what I find most magnetic about successful givers: they get to the top without cutting others down, finding ways of expanding the pie that benefit themselves and the people around them. Whereas success is zero-sum in a group of takers, in groups of givers, it may be true that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts."
Source: Book: Give and Take by Adam Grant
1 Question
What did you do this year that gave you the biggest boost? What did you miss doing this year because you were afraid?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times