Your Sorting Hat: On controlling time, breaking definitions and taking losses
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Feb 08, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Time that you actually control - 1-2 hrs on a workday and 4-10 hrs on a holiday.
What you choose for that time - is the change that you see in your life."
II.
"If you are managed closely, you don't get to make mistakes and learn.
If you have absolute freedom, you learn ONLY from your mistakes.
With a balance of both - you learn from your manager AND your mistakes."
III.
"You don't have to like your job to get good at it.
Performance is a choice. Jobs and roles change."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Isaac Asimov, science fiction author, puts planning in perspective in his multiple Hugo award winning book series - Foundation :
"To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well."
Source: Book: Foundation by Isaac Asimov
II.
Toni Morrison, Nobel Prize awardee for Literature, makes a case of not being limited by how others define you - in her Pulitzer Prize winning book - Beloved :
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined."
Source: Book: Beloved by Toni Morrison
1 Question
When did failure trouble you at work? Are you ready to take losses on your way to the top?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times