Your Sorting Hat: On choosing your effort, choosing your trajectory and choosing your time
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Aug 08, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"A good mountaineer knows - there is no precise timeline to a mountain summit.
They heed daily weather and climbing conditions to stay alive.
With life goals too - solving today's challenge beats chasing a fixed timeline."
II.
"Every piece of advice is not equal.
Use your current reality to decide which advice will work for you."
III.
"Expertise takes massive effort and not talent or luck alone.
If you are not an expert, it is usually because you haven't chosen that effort yet."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Albert Einstein, scientist and theoretical physicist, believed in the tools of inspiration and intuition to bridge the existing gaps in knowledge :
"At times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason. When the eclipse of 1919 confirmed my intuition, I was not in the least surprised. In fact, I would have been astonished had it turned out otherwise. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."
Source: Quote : Albert Einstein
II.
James Clear, author of the no 1 New York Times bestseller - Atomic Habits, talks about the right priority -
"You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results."
Source: Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
1 Question
Where or with whom would you spend your time, if you switched off social media for a day? What is time spent on social media taking you away from?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times