Your Sorting Hat: Earn your trust, drop the label and take one step
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Dec 13, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Degrees on your resume, only get you shortlisted for job interviews and roles.
Getting a job and succeeding in it depends on delivering value and demonstrating it.
Not getting promoted, or not clearing interviews? Another certificate won’t help."
II.
"Your job is safest when you reduce your manager’s work and time.
It means, you are trusted with your manager’s key tasks and roles.
Conversely, the highest risk to your job comes from losing that trust."
III.
"Your best learning comes from - On the Job
Your best teacher is one who has - Done the Job
Make friends with your immediate seniors at work."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Anthony De Mello, Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist, talks about rediscovering happiness by discarding labels and identities, in his book - Awareness:
"Happiness is our natural state. Happiness is the natural state of little children, to whom the kingdom belongs until they have been polluted and contaminated by the stupidity of society and culture. To acquire happiness you don't have to do anything, because happiness cannot be acquired. Does anybody know why? Because we have it already. How can you acquire what you already have? Then why don't you experience it?
Because you've got to drop something. You've got to drop illusions. You don't have to add anything in order to be happy; you've got to drop something. Life is easy, life is delightful. It's only hard on your illusions, your ambitions, your greed, your cravings. Do you know where these things come from? From having identified with all kinds of labels!"
Source: Book: Awareness by Anthony De Mello
II.
Simon Sinek, author and speaker, talks about the fact that success and fulfilment is easier when you discover your purpose, in his book - Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team -
"There are two ways to build a career or a business. We can go through life hunting and pecking, looking for opportunities or customers, hoping that something connects. Or we can go through life with intention, knowing what our piece looks like, knowing our WHY, and going straight to the places we fit."
Source: Book: Find Your Why by Simon Sinek
1 Question
What is the most important goal in your life now? What small step today takes you closer to that goal?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times