Your Sorting Hat: On Completion beats Perfection, Therapy Freeway and the Top 3 Principles
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 19, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Be concerned with Completion, and not with Perfection.
Deliver by deadlines and your reputation will carry you far."
II.
"Learning new stuff requires 2 seemingly opposite mindsets -
Firstly, be ok with saying - I don't know..
Secondly, don't be ok with not knowing."
III.
"Not the strongest, nor the smartest but the most adaptable will survive -
What applies to Darwin's "Species", applies to professional careers too."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Adam Grant, Wharton Professor and popular science author, encourages asking questions and revising one's understanding, in his book - Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know :
"How do you know? It’s a question we need to ask more often, both of ourselves and of others. The power lies in its frankness. It’s nonjudgmental—a straightforward expression of doubt and curiosity that doesn’t put people on the defensive."
Source: Book: Think Again by Adam Grant
II.
Bruce Perry, American psychiatrist and author, demystifies therapy and counseling, in the book co-authored with Oprah Winfrey - What Happened to You? Conversations on Trauma, Resilience and Healing :
"It’s interesting-most people think about therapy as something that involves going in and undoing what’s happened. But whatever your past experiences created in your brain, the associations exist and you can’t just delete them. You can’t get rid of the past.
Therapy is more about building new associations, making new, healthier default pathways. It is almost as if therapy is taking your two-lane dirt road and building a four-lane freeway alongside it. The old road stays, but you don’t use it much anymore. Therapy is building a better alternative, a new default. And that takes repetition, and time, honestly, it works best if someone understands how the brain changes."
Source: Book: What Happened to You by Bruce Perry
1 Question
What, according to you, are the top 3 principles that determine success in your field? How do you measure up to them?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times