Your Sorting Hat: On ego vs confidence, choices vs abilities and phone dependence

Career Tuesday

Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 31, 2023)

Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!  

3 Career Ideas

I.

"Ego wants to be seen as right over results, seeks approval, avoids feedback.

Confidence wants to be right, wants results and seeks feedback to grow abilities.

Does your behaviour display confidence or ego?

The answer could be the gap between success and failure."

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II.

"To impress your manager, use data that matters to her/ him.

Talk about the numbers you achieved last week or month.

Then the numbers you will deliver next week or month."

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III.

"Qualifications open the door - 

Continuous learning and results keep you inside."

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2 Life Quotes from Books

I.

J K Rowling, bestselling author, offers perspective to her protagonist in - Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets :

"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities."

Source: Book: Chamber of Secrets by J K Rowling

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II.

Mark Twain, American writer and humorist, does not think much about popular beliefs and opinions -

"Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect)."

Source: Source: The Great Epicurean

1 Question

Can you switch off your phone for one whole day? What structures can you build to execute this?    

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Until next week,

Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times