Your Sorting Hat: On dangerous flaws, best moments and repeating mistakes
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 08, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday and a Happy Women's Day!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Design your environment for success.
Where you work? Who and What you work with?"
II.
"If you always think, that you will find success in the next role,
Then you surely will never find it in your current role."
III.
"What are your flaws? Which skills do you lack? Where will you fail?
Not knowing, is the most dangerous flaw of all - lack of self awareness."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Michael Lewis, author and financial journalist, has job market related critical wisdom to offer in his bestselling study of a successful basketball team - Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game - :
"The inability to envision a certain kind of person doing a certain kind of thing because you've never seen someone who looks like him do it before is not just a vice. It's a luxury.
What begins as a failure of the imagination ends as a market inefficiency: when you rule out an entire class of people from doing a job simply by their appearance, you are less likely to find the best person for the job."
Source: Book: Moneyball by Michael Lewis
II.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Hungarian American psychologist, recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity and authored the book - Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience :
"The best moments in our lives, are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times—although such experiences can also be enjoyable, if we have worked hard to attain them. The best moments usually occur when a person’s body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.
Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage. For each person there are thousands of opportunities, challenges to expand ourselves."
Source: Book: Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
1 Question
When did you last apologise for a mistake? How will you make sure that the mistake will not repeat?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times