Your Sorting Hat: On actual and imagined, low expectations and energising relationships
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 03, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Exciting work means different things to different people at different stages.
For someone it is about getting into the flow while coding.
For another it is meeting people and building relationships at a sales conference.
Don't let others define it for you. Figure out your ideal work."
II.
"You get on a metro or local train and it takes you to the destination.
Whether you reached the right destination or not has nothing to do with whether you found a seat or had to stand.
Often your success or failure has little to do with your efforts, skills and decisions. It may just be about being on the right train or the wrong one.
Be humble with success and kind with failure."
III.
"Your brain cannot tell the difference between the actual and imagined experience.
To succeed often - rehearse and visualise your interviews and sales pitches.
To fail often - overthink about all that can go wrong and take no action."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Bianca Sparacino, poet, in her book - A Gentle Reminder -
"It is okay to take your time. We live in a generation that romanticizes moving forward as quickly as possible when it comes to careers and our futures and our success within them. But there is no point in rushing quickly towards a life that will not inspire you or fulfill you."
Source: Book: A Gentle Reminder - Bianca Sparacino
II.
Warren Buffett, investor, on the secret to long lasting relationships -
"If you want a marriage to last, look for someone with low expectations..
..I want my partners to be on the low side on expectations coming in. Because I want the marriage to last. It’s a financial marriage when they join me at Berkshire and I don’t want them to think I’m going to do things I’m not going to do."
Source: Quote: Warren Buffett
1 Question
Which team, co-worker or manager energises you? How do you reciprocate? How will you keep that relationship going?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times