Your Sorting Hat: On daily actions, daily fresh eyes and daily creation
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 19, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"The quick answer today will fail you tomorrow.
A great long term answer needs thought and structure. And that takes time."
II.
"Be a stand for others to succeed. In your team, friends, family.
Not all, but the best amongst them will stand for your success.
That will be enough."
III.
"Hammer away daily and you can shatter the rock.
Water the earth daily and you can grow a forest.
Your actions will compound to build or break - your career, wealth, relationships."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Kim Malone Scott, CEO coach and author, offers an effective way to lead better in her book - Radical Candor -
"Make sure that you are seeing each person on your team with fresh eyes every day. People evolve, and so your relationships must evolve with them. Care personally; don’t put people in boxes and leave them there."
Source: Book: Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott
II.
Dan Ariely, professor and author, says that passion increases with skill and effort in his book - The Upside of Irrationality :
“The effort that we put into something does not just change the object. It changes us and the way we evaluate that object. Greater labor leads to greater love. Our overvaluation of the things we make runs so deep that we assume that others share our biased perspective. When we cannot complete something into which we have put great effort, we don’t feel so attached to it."
Source: Book: The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
1 Question
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times