Your Sorting Hat: On deserving your attention, repeated actions and alternatives to criticism
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Dec 12, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Not every problem at work deserves your attention today.
Where do you need to focus, and what do you need to ignore - for now?
Figuring this out daily becomes your superpower."
II.
"Success in a role is usually uncomplicated.
Do you know what needs to be done?
Are you doing it?"
III.
"If you are not sure about what you want -
List down what you do not want.
Avoiding that is good enough for a win."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
James Clear, writer and speaker, in his New York Times bestseller - Atomic Habits :
"Every action you take is a vote for the type of person you wish to become. No single instance will transform your beliefs, but as the votes build up, so does the evidence of your new identity...
...When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow, it will split in two, and I know it was not that last blow that did it—but all that had gone before."
Source: Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
II.
Epictetus, former slave and Greek Stoic philosopher, in his primer for living the best possible life - The Art Of Living: The Classical Manual On Virtue, Happiness And Effectiveness -
"Your happiness depends on three things, all of which are within your power: your will, your ideas concerning the events in which you are involved, and the use you make of your ideas."
Source: Book: Art of Living by Epictetus
1 Question
When did you last criticise someone? Did it work? If not, then what works better with that person?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times