Your Sorting Hat: On an unforgettable year, informal chats and tiny commitments
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Feb 06, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Outstanding or unique actions create memories and milestones.
Want to build an unforgettable year at work?
Embrace the crisis, ask for challenging projects, learn difficult skills."
II.
"The best player may not be the best coach. And vice versa.
More obviously - learning and teaching are different skills.
Seek the best coach, not the best player when you are learning to play."
III.
"The opportunity you see is neither fixed nor restricted.
It multiplies with the efforts you invest and the choices you make."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Taylor Swift, American singer and songwriter, on not taking yourself too seriously :
"The lesson I've learned the most often in life is that you're always going to know more in the future than you know now."
Source: Quote: Taylor Swift
II.
T Boone Pickens, American oil magnate and investor, in his book - The First Billion Is the Hardest: Reflections on a Life of Comebacks and America's Energy Future :
"Keep things informal. Talking is the natural way to do business. Writing is great for keeping records and putting down details, but talk generates ideas. Great things come out from luncheon meetings which consist of a sandwich, a cup of soup, and a good idea or two. No martinis."
Source: Book: The First Billion by T Boone Pickens
1 Question
What is the smallest commitment to a new habit that you will see through on your toughest days? Walk 2 minutes? Read one page?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times