Your Sorting Hat: On effort and reward, depowering triggers and believing
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Aug 27, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"A master takes a moment to deliver perfection. And is applauded.
A student puts in hours to deliver imperfection. And is criticised.
Applause or criticism does not depend on how hard you worked today.
It depends on how you worked all the way up to today."
II.
"At some point in your career, salary might be your primary interest in a job.
At other points - it may be the learning or the responsibility or the culture.
Your priorities will keep changing. Each change is a phase of personal growth."
III.
"You may not be able to repay your managers and mentors who shaped you.
But you can pay it forward and invest in shaping your team and mentees."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Jonathan Haidt, social psychologist, in his 2024 bestseller on Gen Z - The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness -
"As the Stoics and Buddhists taught long ago, happiness cannot be reached by eliminating all “triggers” from life; rather, happiness comes from learning to deprive external events of the power to trigger negative emotions in you."
Source: Book: The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt
II.
Eoin Colfer, children's writer, in the fantasy novel series - Artemis Fowl -
"Confidence is ignorance. If you're feeling cocky, it's because there's something you don't know."
Source: Book: Artemis Fowl - Eoin Colfer
1 Question
Who believed in you at the right time, that your life changed? Who do you believe in, such that their life changes?
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Devashish Chakravarty
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Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times