Your Sorting Hat: On being coachable, whispering to yourself and sources of validation
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 05, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Being coachable is the easiest way to supercharge your career.
It means being humble enough to take feedback to improve.”
II.
"Listening is a problem-solving skill.
You are a good listener when you can communicate the other person's position better than they did."
III.
"In a workplace conflict, prioritise what you want over what you feel.
It is easy to get distracted by the content and tone of your distractors and to say or do the wrong thing instead of taking the best step towards your goal."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Robert Kiyosaki, author of Rich Dad, Poor Dad, on your internal conversations :
"It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power!"
Source: Quote: Robert Kiyosaki
II.
Scott Adams, American author and cartoonist, in his book - How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life :
"Goal-oriented people exist in a state of continuous presuccess failure at best, and permanent failure at worst if things never work out. Systems people succeed every time they apply their systems, in the sense that they did what they intended to do.
The goals people are fighting the feeling of discouragement at each turn. The systems people are feeling good everytime they apply their system.
That's a big difference in terms of maintaining your personal energy in the right direction."
Source: Book: How to Fail by Scott Adams
1 Question
When and from whom do you seek validation? What are your alternate sources when you do not receive the validation you sought?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times