Your Sorting Hat: On fear of confrontation, using regret to advantage and knowing a truth
Careers, Life and Questions (Feb 22, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Many paths to a goal? Choose the eventful one.
More actions. More interactions. More possibilities."
II.
"Fear of confrontation limits your communication and problem solving.
Instead, expect disagreements. Focus on the problem, not the person.
Separate facts, opinions, and assumptions. Look to learn and correct."
III.
"Consistency is the easiest path to a skill."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Andre Agassi, former World No 1 tennis player, talks about life and learnings in his autobiography - Open :
"What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave."
Source: Book: Open by Andre Agassi
II.
Daniel Pink, New York Times bestselling author, conducted extensive research on "regret"- The American Regret Project and The World Regret Survey. He advices on using regret in productive ways in his book published this month in Feb 2022 - The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward :
"Create a failure résumé. Most of us have a résumé—a written compendium of jobs, experiences, and credentials that demonstrate to prospective employers and clients how qualified, adept, and generally awesome we are. Tina Seelig, a professor of practice at Stanford University, says we also need a “failure résumé,” a detailed and thorough inventory of our flops. A failure résumé offers another method for addressing our regrets. The very act of creating one is a form of disclosure. And by eyeing your failure résumé not as its protagonist, but as an observer, you can learn from it without feeling diminished by your mistakes.
A few years ago, I compiled a failure résumé, then tried to glean lessons from the many screwups I’d committed. I realized I’d repeatedly made variations of the same two mistakes, and that knowledge has helped me avoid those mistakes again."
Source: Book: Power of Regret by Daniel Pink
1 Question
"What important truth do very few people agree with you on?" - Peter Thiel in his book - Zero to One
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times