Your Sorting Hat: On consistency vs flexibility, acknowledging ignorance and new mentors
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 14, 2025)
Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Relationships matter for your career. Inside your company, they champion your cause. Outside the company, they bring you new opportunities.
Plant the right seeds and water them regularly to grow and maintain great relationships. At the same time, pull out the weeds to end those relationships that harm the good ones.”
II.
"Consistency in processes is a superpower - until the environment is consistent.
When the context changes, flexibility in adapting to change becomes the new superpower while consistency with old processes kills you."
III.
"Energy or enthusiasm changes the outcome and how others perceive you.
Prioritize tasks that excite you, and watch how it shifts the momentum of your day—and inspires those around you."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Marie Forleo, in Everything is Figureoutable, on possibilities:
"The most powerful words in the universe are: 'I don’t know… yet.'"
Source: Book: https://tinyurl.com/mryuvz69
II.
Maya Angelou, poet and civil rights activist, on courage:
"Courage is the most important of all virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently."
Source: Book: Conversations with Maya Angelou by Jeffrey M. Elliot
1 Question
Who in your network could offer valuable guidance or mentorship? How will you reach out to them?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times