Your Sorting Hat: Find your Why, a strategy for life and changing problem time frames
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 06, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"It's always the "why" that matters.
Then the "how" becomes easy, somehow."
II.
"Nature believes in trial and error. Creation doesn't get it right in the first shot.
Likewise, make room for errors while building your career, life and wealth."
III.
"Are you problem solving for proximate cause or root cause?
A broken bone can be solved once with a plaster cast and pain killers.
But until you solve the Vitamin deficiency roots, the problem returns."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Marshall Goldsmith, leadership coach and author, explores why we find it difficult to change the behaviour that we want to and then how to go about it, in his book - Triggers: Sparking positive change and making it last:
"One of our most dysfunctional beliefs is our contempt for simplicity and structure. This is a natural response that combines three competing impulses:
1) our contempt for simplicity (only complexity is worthy of our attention);
2) our contempt for instruction and follow-up; and
3) our faith, however unfounded, that we can succeed all by ourselves.
When we presume that we are better than people who need structure and guidance, we lack one of the most crucial ingredients for change: Humility."
Source: Book: Triggers by Marshall Goldsmith
II.
Clayton Christensen, academic and author, talks about a strategy for life in his compilation - How Will You Measure Your Life -
"In your life, there are going to be constant demands for your time and attention. How are you going to decide which of those demands gets resources? The trap many people fall into is to allocate their time to whoever screams loudest, and their talent to whatever offers them the fastest reward. That’s a dangerous way to build a strategy..
..You can talk all you want about having a clear purpose and strategy for your life, but ultimately this means nothing if you are not investing the resources you have in a way that is consistent with your strategy. In the end, a strategy is nothing but good intentions unless it's effectively implemented."
Source: Book: How Will You Measure Your Life by Habit by Clayton Christensen
1 Question
List your top 3 problems. How does the problem change if you think long term? What does the answer look like now?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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