Your Sorting Hat: On 3 options in life, job interview learnings and sources of salary
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 10, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Listen with the mindset that you could be wrong."
II.
"If you think you know everything about your job, or
If your team or manager has nothing to teach you,
You are currently under performing because you are under challenged.
Take on more responsibilities. Get out of your comfort zone. Perform!"
III.
"Reflect on your job interviews. They teach you a lot about -
1. Reality - Your current market value
2. Communication - How to tell your career story
3. Succeeding - How company research and mock interviews help. "
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Adam Grant, organisational psychologist, on decision making and risk in his book - How Non-conformists Change the World -
"When we use the logic of consequence, we can always find reasons not to take risks. The logic of appropriateness frees us up. We think less about what will guarantee the outcome we want, and act more on a visceral sense of what someone like us ought to do."
Source: Book: How Non-Conformists Change the World - Adam Grant
II.
Naval Ravikant, investor and entrepreneur -
"In any situation in life, you only have three options. You always have three options. You can change it, you can accept it, or you can leave it. What is not a good option is to sit around wishing you would change it but not changing it, wishing you would leave it but not leaving it, and not accepting it.
It's that struggle, that aversion, that is responsible for most of our misery. The phrase that I probably use the most to myself in my head is just one word: accept."
Source: Quote: Naval Ravikant
1 Question
For your salary, are you selling your time or your knowledge (skills)? How will it be different after two years?
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Devashish Chakravarty
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Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times