Your Sorting Hat: On compounding your career, futility of figures and programming your brain
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Dec 07, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Quality beats quantity. One resume for a 100 job applications won't work.
Customise your resume for 10 applications instead. Results will show up."
II.
"In an interview - talk about your achievements, not your responsibilities.
A product sells on what it can do, not what it's supposed to."
III.
"The power of compounding applies not just to money but also in your career.
Time spent in a domain, industry or company earns you compounding growth."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Mark Manson, author of the New York Times bestseller - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life - offers a different explanation to the elusive pursuit of happiness :
"To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action."
Source: Book: Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
II.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French aristocrat, writer, and military aviator - in his timeless classic - The Little Prince - talks about how our obsession with numbers blinds us to what matters :
"Grown-ups love figures... When you tell them you've made a new friend they never ask you any questions about essential matters. They never say to you "What does his voice sound like? What games does he love best? Does he collect butterflies? " Instead they demand "How old is he? How much does he weigh? How much money does his father make? " Only from these figures do they think they have learned anything about him."
Source: Book: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1 Question
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times