Your Sorting Hat: Curiosity as guide, giving up definitions and non-goal activities
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 18, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Be the first person in office and in meetings everyday -
Boost your work and career more than you can guess."
II.
"Instead of avoiding or hating your manager, you can observe and learn -
Your leader is a great teacher when you are preparing for your future."
III.
"What are you curious about? Make curiosity your guide.
Use it to question assumptions or what doesn't feel right.
The answers help you learn faster and keep the journey light."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Richard N Bolles, author of the decades long best-selling job-hunting book - What Colour is Your Parachute - says that both the journey and the destination is important when seeking success:
"I like the late Bernard Haldane's definition of an achievement. He says it is: something you yourself feel you have done well, that you also enjoyed doing and felt proud of. In other words you are looking for an accomplishment that gave you two pleasures: enjoyment while doing it, and satisfaction from the outcome. That doesn't mean you may not have sweated as you did it, or hated some parts of the process, but it does mean that basically you enjoyed most of the process. The pleasure was not simply in the outcome, but along the way as well."
Source: Book: What Color is your Parachute by Richard Bolles
II.
Eckhart Tolle, German spiritual teacher and author, talks about increasing your impact by reducing your limiting identities in his book - A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose -
"Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won't die. You will come to life. And don't be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it's their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don't be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are."
Source: Book: A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
1 Question
What is one thing that you are bad at and yet love doing? Your non-goal activities are essential to remain refreshed and energised for your goals.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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