Your Sorting Hat: On chasing wild dreams, leaping before you’re ready, and choosing influences
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 26, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"If your dreams don’t scare you, they’re not big enough.
When your dream feels like being pursued by a tiger, you are on the right path.
Stop aiming for what feels achievable. Start chasing what feels impossible.”
II.
"Chaos is the best space for creativity.
When things fall apart, that’s your chance to rebuild something entirely new and better—in your way."
III.
"Leap before you’re ready. That is how you grow.
The best opportunities always demand skills you haven’t mastered yet. Jump in—and learn in the doing."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Octavia Butler, legendary science fiction writer, on becoming the architect of your destiny, in Parable of the Sower::
"All that you touch, You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth Is Change."
Source: Book: Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
II.
Austin Kleon, artist and writer, in choosing what influences you, in Steal Like an Artist::
"You don’t get to pick your family, but you can pick your teachers and you can pick your friends and you can pick the music you listen to and you can pick the books you read and you can pick the movies you see. You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences. The German writer Goethe said, "We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.""
Source: Book: Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon
1 Question
What small action could you take today that would make tomorrow easier or more fulfilling?
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Devashish Chakravarty
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Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times