Your Sorting Hat: Building muscle, one thing at a time and projecting your struggles
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 24, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Which is your stronger skill - evaluating data or evaluating character?
Now do yourself a favour.
Always seek a second opinion when evaluating the other one."
II.
"To build muscle faster, your personal trainer puts you through Metabolic Training.
That is - increasing the energy expended, using compound exercises.
Borrow this idea for work.
Engage yourself and your team in complex projects to build capability and muscle. "
III.
"The most successful problem solvers at work are not always the smartest people.
But the ones who can see a problem in diverse ways.
Diversity in thinking comes from diversity in the people you spend time with."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Cordelia Fine, psychologist and philosopher, highlights how your strengths are not inborn gifts but skills you can choose to grow, in her book - Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference -
"Stanford University's psychologist Carol Dweck and her colleagues have discovered that what you believe about intellectual ability—whether you think it's a fixed gift, or an earned ability that can be developed—makes a difference to your behavior, persistence, and performance. Students who see ability as fixed—as a gift—are more vulnerable to setbacks and difficulties. And stereotypes, as Dweck rightly points out, "are stories about gifts—who has them and who doesn't." Dweck and her colleagues are shown that when students are encouraged to see math ability as something that grows with effort—pointing out, for example, that the brain forges new connections and develops better ability every time they practice a task—grades improve and gender gaps diminish (relative to groups given control interventions)."
Source: Book: Delusions of Gender by Cordelia Fine
II.
Peter Drucker, described as the founder of modern management, summarises effectiveness, in his book - The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done :
"If there is any one “secret” of effectiveness, it is concentration. Effective executives do first things first and they do one thing at a time."
Source: Book: The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker
1 Question
What bugs you most in your friend/ spouse/ colleague? There's a good chance it is the same characteristic or behaviour that you are still struggling to remove in your own self.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times