Your Sorting Hat: On choice versus chance, healing from failure and a cure for anxiety
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Dec 26, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"If you are not living a life of choice, you are living a life of chance.
Take time to think and plan where you want your life to go.
Choose your career path. Else, chance will have its way."
II.
"What you learn today, helps you solve newer problems tomorrow.
If you learn nothing today, there's nothing new that you will solve tomorrow."
III.
"Don't envy experts who are passionate about their work.
Mastery kindles passion and keeps the flames burning.
Put in the time to build expertise and see your passion grow."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Dan Ariely, professor and author in behavioural economics, shares a way to increase the efficiency of our interactions in his book - Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces that Shape Our Decisions :
"Without constant suspicion, we can get more out of our exchanges with others while spending less time making sure that others will fulfil their promise to us."
Source: Book: Predictably Irrational by Dan Ariely
II.
Jonathan Van Ness, television personality, favours cherry-picking value from failures, in his memoir - Over the Top :
"Just because we mess up doesn’t mean all the lessons we learned are undone. Healing can be imperfect."
Source: Book:Over The Top by Jonathan Von Ness
1 Question
Where are you most anxious? What's the worst-case future result that you can think of? How can you come to terms with that?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times