Your Sorting Hat: How to be Lucky, define a friend and low cost decisions
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jun 21, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Your best defence against job insecurity is your skill stack,
And your network of ex-colleagues, ex-bosses and mentors."
II.
"'Luck Surface Area' or the chances of getting lucky in life,
Depends on how much you do passionately, multiplied by -
Number of people you effectively communicate this with.
In other words - you make your luck when you 'Do and Tell'."
III.
"How can you hit team goals together without overtime or burnout?
Start each day with a team meet to lock in - What will get done today?"
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Adam Grant, organisational psychologist and top rated Wharton Professor, offers an interesting definition of a 'friend' in his book on the battle against conformity - Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World:
"In the deepest sense of the word, a friend is someone who sees more potential in you than you see in yourself, someone who helps you become the best version of yourself."
Source: Book: Originals by Adam Grant
II.
Neil Gaiman, award winning writer and author of one of the greatest graphic novels of all time - The Sandman (available through DC Comics), offers a reason to keep learning through life from his book - The Sandman, Vol. 9: The Kindly Ones :
"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing."
Source: Book: The Kindly Ones by Neil Gaiman
1 Question
Which decision are you worrying about or delaying? Can you re-frame the situation such that you can afford a mistake in your decision and then correct it?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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