Your Sorting Hat: Difficult chats, when you don't know and your sum of failed projects
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 17, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Repair that minor leak before it becomes a major one.
That difficult team chat you avoid today, can sink your boat at work tomorrow."
II.
"Make a list of your biggest achievements.
Refer to it on your bad days.
Remember that you have won a few battles, but survived all of them."
III.
"When deciding between two job offers, choose the people and company.
Instead of a 10% higher salary.
You will learn and succeed sooner. And grow your wealth faster."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Kapil Gupta, celebrity executive coach and author, talks about the pitfalls of being a Know-All in his introspective book - Atmamun: The Path To Achieving The Bliss Of The Himalayan Swamis. And The Freedom Of A Living God. -
"When the mind thinks that it knows, it creates a story.
And it makes the person believe the fairy tale.
But when it is confused, it has no story to tell you.
So you are, for a brief moment, free to learn the truth. Independent of the mind."
Source: Book: Atmamun by Kapil Gupta
II.
Karan Bajaj, author and founder of WhiteHat, on the biggest lever for success in his book - The Freedom Manifesto: 7 Rules to Live a Life of Your Calling :
"Three decades of research by Korn Ferry shows that learning agility is the single-best predictor of career success, not grades or college pedigrees...
...Learning-agile employees constantly seek new challenges at work, take risks and self-reflect from mistakes. They’re obsessed with learning and growth rather than titles and promotions. As a result, they adapt quickly to unfamiliar situations and thrive among chaos and uncertainty, the number one most critical skill in a world changing dramatically from technology. The higher you go in an organization, the more you’ll lead and make decisions in uncertainty. While ordinary careers stutter and plateau in this uncertainty, the learner’s career accelerates."
Source: Book: The Freedom Manifesto by Karan Bajaj
1 Question
When was your last failed project? What changed in you after that? The sum of all changes builds you and brings on new successes.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
Refer and get refreshed. Achievements have this power.