Your Sorting Hat: Doing what matters, fulfilment in the moment and buy what you sell
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 15, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"'For to him who has, will more be given; and from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.' - Gospel of Mathew
In today's 'Winner Takes All' world - winners are hugely rewarded
So use the 'Mathew effect of accumulated advantage' to succeed in your career.
Focus. Add small gains. Define the field. Become the best."
II.
"A hard goal that is worth chasing -
Will matter more than an easy goal where you cannot fail."
III.
"The big question when choosing a job or role is not the salary or title. It is -
'Who will I develop into?'
What you get today matters less than where the role will take you next."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Kieran Setiya, Professor of Philosophy at MIT, talks about meaning and actions that provide meaning in his book - Midlife: A Philosophical Guide:
"The way in which you relate to the activities that matter most to you is by trying to complete them and so expel them from your life. Your days are devoted to ending, one by one, the activities that give them meaning...
...The way out is to find sufficient value in atelic activities, activities that have no point of conclusion or limit, ones whose fulfilment lies in the moment of action itself. To draw meaning from such activities is to live in the present..."
Source: Book: Midlife by Kieran Setiya
II.
Charles Bukowski, American poet known for his gritty quotes, talks about writing, death and immortality, literature, city life, illness, war, and the past in his poems here - The Last Night of the Earth Poems -
"People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice."
Source: Book: Last Night of the Earth by Charles Bukowski
1 Question
Would you buy what you are selling? If not, then what would you change?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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