Your Sorting Hat: Accuracy first, power of excitement and choosing young
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 10, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Act now!
Your best thoughts without action are worthless.
Any action you take, at least has a chance to be worthwhile. "
II.
"Accuracy comes first, at work. You are valued for delivering on expectation.
Speed is your second skill. The efficient person is valued more.
Impact is the final step. The leader with the biggest results will win."
III.
"Do you know what you want?
Are you happy to pay the price?
You are unbeatable in your quest, when both your answers are - YES."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
John Cleese, legendary actor, comedian and writer of Monty Python and Fawlty Towers, explains why creative people need deadlines and yet shouldn't hurry up, in his amusing and practical guide - Creativity: A Short and Cheerful Guide -
"But once it's been agreed when that real-world decision has to happen, why make it before the deadline arrives?
Why?
Well, it would be foolish, because if you can wait longer, two incredibly important things may happen.:
You may get new information.
You may get new ideas.
So why would you make a decision when you don't need to?"
Source: Book: Creativity by John Cleese
II.
Marc Andreessen, entrepreneur and venture capitalist, values enthusiasm above experience in high potential people in his archived blog :
"I’m a firm believer that most people who do great things are doing them for the first time. Returning to my theory of hiring, I’d rather have someone all fired up to do something for the first time than someone who’s done it before and isn’t that excited to do it again. You rarely go wrong giving someone who is high potential the shot."
Source: Book: PMarca Blog by Marc Andreessen
1 Question
How young are you choosing to be today?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times