Your Sorting Hat: Dual compounding, uncertain yet successful and next value add
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jul 05, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"What works well on social media does not work well in a job.
Working in silence is an advantage when end results matter."
II.
"Wealth comes from the power of compounding.
Are you compounding both - salary and investments?"
III.
"Your only leverage comes from what you know and how you use it.
Ask questions to find the facts and put in the effort to get the outcomes.
A bias for learning and a bias for action - together create your magic."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Alex Trebek, multiple Emmy awardee as the host for the super successful show - Jeopardy! - talks about his life's learnings in his memoir - The Answer Is…: Reflections on My Life :
"Most of the great accomplishments of the world have not been made by people who were certain...
..Even if you are learning facts that you are not going to be able to use in your daily life, it enriches you – the fact itself just enriches you as a human being and broadens your outlook on life and makes you a more understanding and better person."
Source: Book: The Answer Is.. by Alex Trebek
II.
Kate Murphy, American author known for her eclectic and widely read pieces, talks about asking questions and the impact of listening in her book - You Are Not Listening: What You're Missing and Why It Matters :
"The most valuable lesson I’ve learned as a journalist is that everybody is interesting if you ask the right questions. If someone is dull or uninteresting, it’s on you..
..To listen well is to figure out what’s on someone’s mind and demonstrate that you care enough to want to know. It’s what we all crave; to be understood as a person with thoughts, emotions, and intentions that are unique and valuable and deserving of attention. Listening is not about teaching, shaping, critiquing, appraising, or showing how it should be done (“Here, let me show you.” “Don’t be shy.” “That’s awesome!” “Smile for Daddy.”). Listening is about the experience of being experienced. It’s when someone takes an interest in who you are and what you are doing. The lack of being known and accepted in this way leads to feelings of inadequacy and emptiness. What makes us feel most lonely and isolated in life is less often the result of a devastating traumatic event than the accumulation of occasions when nothing happened but something profitably could have. It’s the missed opportunity to connect when you weren’t listening or someone wasn’t really listening to you."
Source: Book: You Are Not Listening by Kate Murphy
1 Question
What new skill would help you add huge value to your current role?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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