Your Sorting Hat: Make tomorrow easier, normal means nothing and what do you need
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jul 26, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Change your environment and you will need less willpower and effort
Find the right place, people and pulse and tough tasks become routine."
II.
"What can you do at work today, to make tomorrow's task easier? -
Is a quick way to make your daily task list and meet your deadlines."
III.
"To design a good system - put in processes that reduce the cost of making mistakes rather than trying to get everything right."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Alexandra Robbins, journalist and author, makes a case against group conformity in her bestselling book - The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory, and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School :
"No student should be encouraged -- by anyone -- to change himself until he's "normal," a term that says everything and means nothing...
...Conformity is not an admirable trait. Conformity is a copout. It threatens self-awareness. It can lead groups to enforce rigid and arbitrary rules..
...'What made Einstein special was his impertinence, his nonconformity, and his distaste for dogma. Einstein’s genius reminds us that a society’s competitive advantage comes not from teaching the multiplication or periodic tables but from nurturing rebels.' "
Source: Book: The Geeks Shall Inherit by Alexandra Robbins
II.
David Brooks, social commentator and writer, describes his social observations on continuity of and compounding at work, in his book - The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement:
"People who succeed tend to find one goal in the distant future and then chase it through thick and thin. People who flit from one interest to another are much, much less likely to excel at any of them. School asks students to be good at a range of subjects, but life asks people to find one passion that they will follow forever."
Source: Book: The Social Animal by David Brooks
1 Question
What do you need, to do your job better? Or to reduce the effort required?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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