Your Sorting Hat: On focus, narrative and practice
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 14, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Prioritise results over being right.
What you solve will get you ahead, not whether your opinion was right."
II.
"For consistent success, do your work even when you don't feel like it.
You fail when you let emotions decide your actions."
III.
"Each task is faster when you focus.
Beat your deadlines by blocking your distractions."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Aswath Damodaran, valuation guru and Professor, on context with content and the danger of data analysis without business narrative -
“I am naturally drawn to numbers but one of the ironies of working with numbers is that the more I work with them, the more skeptical I become about purely number-driven arguments.”
Source:
Book: Narrative and Numbers by Aswath Damodaran
II.
David Epstein, author and investigative reporter, in his book Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World" - talks about learning by applying knowledge :
"We learn who we are in practice, not in theory.
Modern work demands knowledge transfer: the ability to apply knowledge to new situations and different domains."
Source:
1 Question
Which emergency disrupted your calendar today? Do you want to automate the solution or block time in future?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times