Your Sorting Hat: On assembling furniture, choosing one's way and limiting beliefs
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 30, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"An immigrant makes a difficult decision to move out of his hometown or country,
Executes it against tough odds. Restarts life from zero. And succeeds.
Adopt the immigrant mentality in your career. Think, act and execute like one."
II.
"Choose ideas based on merit, not emotion, nor seniority.
And your team and you will consistently outperform others."
III.
"Assembling IKEA furniture is easy. Find the model. Follow directions.
Similarly, success at work is easy. Imitate and learn from the successful colleague."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Austrian philosopher, in his book - Philosophical Investigations :
"The problems are solved, not by giving new information, but by arranging what we have known since long."
Source: Book: Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein
II.
Viktor Emil Frankl, Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor, celebrates the ultimate freedom, in his book - Man’s Search for Meaning :
"Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way...
...When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
Source: Book: Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
1 Question
Is there a project, a purchase or a person - that other people are trying to talk you out of? Are they stuck in their limiting beliefs while you are not? What if it is the other way around?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times