Your Sorting Hat: Learning from Experts, Finding Advantage and simply Being
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 05, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"When your self-image is different from who you are -
You spend time defending it and avoiding being judged."
II.
"Much of your hard work will go unnoticed.
Yet it is worthwhile - for who you become."
III.
"Experts and subject masters are not always good teachers or leaders.
Don't let your manager's personality stop you from learning from him."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Arthur Golden - bats for hope and leverage - in his literary sensation and runway bestseller debut novel - Memoirs of a Geisha :
"Alright, if it (life) is a stream, you're still free to be in this part of it or that part, aren't you?
The water will divide again and again. If you bump, and tussle, and fight, and make use of whatever advantages you might have -
"You'd find them (advantages) everywhere, if you ever bothered to look!"
Source: Book: Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
II.
John Green, started with a podcast exploring the impact of humans - and later published a book with the same name - The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet :
"Our obsessive desire to make and have and do and say and go and get -
six of the seven most common verbs in English -
may ultimately steal away our ability to BE -
the most common verb in English."
Source: Book: Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green
1 Question
Where in life, are you experiencing positive asymmetry - ie. a lot of upside and little or no downside?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times