Your Sorting Hat: Are you a boxer or a street-fighter?
Boxing vs street-fights, family vs job and losing your cool
Careers, Life and Questions
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"A boxing ring has structure with rules and referees. Like school or a salaried job.
A street-fight has no structure and evolves as it goes. Like setting up a new business.
A boxer or street-fighter is rarely good at both.
Celebrate what YOU are good at."
II.
"You can switch a job, role or industry. Or stay. Choose again if it does not work.
Don't worry. A single career choice does not lock-in the rest of your career."
III.
"In kite flying, the string matters more than the wind to stay in control.
In driving, the brake matters more than the gas pedal to stay alive.
In life, your family matters more than your job to stay alive and in control."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Richard Feynman, American physicist and teacher, encourages practical experiential learning over schools, in his book - Surely You are Joking Mr Feynman -
"Finally, I said that I couldn’t see how anyone could be educated by this self-propagating system in which people pass exams, and teach others to pass exams, but nobody knows anything.
Learn what the rest of the world is like. The variety is worthwhile."
Source: Book: Surely You are Joking Mr Feyman by Richard Feynman
II.
Ray Dalio, billionaire hedge fund manager, talks about doing a job well or failing, in his book - Principles :
"Great is better than terrible, and terrible is better than mediocre, because terrible at least gives life flavor."
Source: Book: Principles by Ray Dalio
1 Question
When did you last lose your cool? Did it benefit you?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times