Your Sorting Hat: Admitting mistakes, thinking in bets and reflecting often
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 07, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"When you admit to mistakes, you give yourself room to grow and succeed,
When you never admit to mistakes, it is only downhill from where you stand.
Risk and failure is in a growth mindset. Fear and reluctance is in the fixed mindset."
II.
"A good leader ensures each member has understood the directions.
A good team member updates the team at every step.
'Never Assume' - is your secret for good team communication."
III.
"Past work alone does not entitle you to a job.
More hours worked does not get you the promotion.
Your value continuously changes with the outcomes you deliver."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Annie Duke, professional poker player and author, relates poker to life, in her book - Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts -
"The decisions we make in our lives—in business, saving and spending, health and lifestyle choices, raising our children, and relationships—easily fit von Neumann’s definition of “real games.” They involve uncertainty, risk, and occasional deception, prominent elements in poker. Trouble follows when we treat life decisions as if they were chess decisions...
...Treating decisions as bets, I discovered, helped me avoid common decision traps, learn from results in a more rational way, and keep emotions out of the process as much as possible."
Source: Book: Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
II.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor and Stoic philosopher, questions the need for constant external validation in his reflective book - Meditations : -
"I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others."
Source: Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
1 Question
Take 5 minutes to reflect on what you learnt today - from your work or from reading. How you can use it in your life?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
"A good leader ensures each member has understood the directions.
A good team member updates the team at every step.
'Never Assume' - is your secret for good team communication."
This is extremely important because in any organization, there will be someone who may not have understood, understood incorrectly or missed altogether. 'Never assume' is the key