Your Sorting Hat: On avoiding a Zero, time reserves and tolerating mistakes
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 01, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Take time to explain your plans to your team members.
They may not understand but you end up thinking clearly."
II.
"A smart investor builds a cash reserve to catch sudden opportunities.
A smart professional creates a time reserve to volunteer for new projects. "
III.
"Multiply any number by zero and you lose everything - is a great Mental Model.
Risky behaviour at work, relationships, health, money - are zeroes to look out for. "
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
David Epstein, author of - Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World - makes a case for learning by doing and accepting mistakes in oneself and others :
" 'First act and then think...We discover the possibilities by doing, by trying new activities, building new networks, finding new role models.' We learn who we are in practice, not in theory...
...The more confident a learner is of their wrong answer, the better the information sticks when they subsequently learn the right answer. Tolerating big mistakes can create the best learning opportunities."
Source: Book: Range by David Epstein
II.
Richard Dawkins, who introduced the term 'meme' , is an evolutionary biologist and author the book - The Selfish Gene - that explores a gene centric view of human evolution and and its reflection in cultural evolution :
"Human suffering has been caused because too many of us cannot grasp that words are only tools for our use. The mere presence in the dictionary of a word like 'living' does not mean it necessarily has to refer to something definite in the real world."
Source: Book: The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
1 Question
What decision brought you here today? What do you learn from that?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times