Your Sorting Hat: On decisive actions, new roadmaps and rewriting beliefs
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 18, 2025)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Opportunities don't wait for you. Take decisions when you are about 70% ready and refine as you go.
Ask yourself: What’s the worst that could happen? If you can handle it, move on.
Not making a decision is also a decision—it’s the one that guarantees you stay stuck."
II.
"Small wins strategy :
- Instead of aiming for drastic change, start with a micro-win: one extra networking call, one new skill practised for 10 minutes, and one email sent.
- Consistency compounds over time, creating momentum you can’t ignore.
- Track your wins—small or big—so you recognise your progress."
III.
"You can’t reach a new destination with an old roadmap.
If you’re feeling stagnant, ask: Are you solving yesterday’s problems with yesterday’s approach?
Seek fresh inputs—mentors, books, courses—to upgrade your strategy."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Terry Pratchett, English author, in A Hat Full of Sky, on breaking limits:
"If you trust in yourself…and believe in your dreams…and follow your star… you’ll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren’t so lazy."
Source: Book: A Hat Full of Sky by Terry Pratchett
II.
Ursula K. Le Guin, American author, in The Dispossessed, on true freedom:
“You cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”
Source: Book: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
1 Question
What’s one belief about yourself that’s limiting your potential? If you rewrote that belief, how would your career or life change?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times