Your Sorting Hat: On diversifying vs concentrating, desire to feel right and ignoring the distraction
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 28, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Trim the weeds and they grow back next week.
Uproot the weeds and they stay away longer.
Are you trimming your problems or uprooting them?
II.
"To change a behaviour or start a habit - start with the simplest reduced version.
Sit down on the study chair, go to the gym, pick up the guitar - for 5 minutes.
Do it daily and you get a new identity. Now you can scale up the habit with ease."
III.
"When you are investing money, energy or time -
To protect your downside, diversify your investments.
To overcome obstacles or win big, concentrate your efforts.
Diversify to insure. Concentrate to ensure."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Jim Rohn, author and motivational speaker, on problem-solving :
"To solve any problem, here are three questions to ask yourself: First, what could I do? Second, what could I read? And third, who could I ask?"
Source: Quote: Jim Rohn
II.
Shane Parrish, founder of Farnam Street, on the need to feel right, in his book - Clear Thinking: Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results -
"Our desire to feel right overpowers our desire to be right...
...Most people go through life assuming that we’re right about everything all the time and that people who don’t see things our way are wrong. We mistake how we want the world to be with how it actually is. The subject doesn’t matter: we’re right about politics, other people, our memories; you name it. We mistake what we believe for the true facts. Of course, we can’t be right about everything all the time. Everyone makes mistakes or misremembers some things. But we still want to feel right all the time, and ideally get other people to reinforce that feeling. Hence, we channel inordinate amounts of energy to proving to others—or ourselves—that we’re right. When this happens, we’re less concerned with outcomes and more concerned with protecting our egos."
Source: Book: Clear Thinking by Shane Parrish
1 Question
What do you need to ignore right now, to move faster?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times