Your Sorting Hat: On getting a superpower, being perfect and optimising meetings

Career Tuesday

Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 15, 2024)

Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday! 

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3 Career Ideas
I.

"Make dependability your superpower and you will never lack for opportunity.

The more you can be relied on to deliver on your promises - the higher the trust, accountability and payout that the world is willing to give you." 

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II.

"10% of an iceberg is visible and rests on the invisible 90% that is underwater.

Similarly, people behaviour and decisions are the visible 10% driven by -

The invisible 90% - thoughts, motivations, culture, values and beliefs.

Have you considered the invisible while responding to someone's visible?" 

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III.

"Comfort fosters procrastination. Discomfort sparks action.

The discomforts you embrace are the fuel for your growth."

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2 Life Quotes from Books

I.

Micahel Schur, producer and writer, in his book - How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question -   

"In as few words as possible, how to try to pull off the nearly impossible task of living a good life on earth. Here’s what they wrote: Know thyself. and Nothing in excess."

Source: Book: How to be perfect - Michael Schur

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II.

Viet Thanh Nguyen, American Professor and novelist, on the power of storytelling in his memoir  - A Man of Two Faces: A Memoir, A History, A Memorial - 

"Stories are not just there to entertain, to make you feel good, to reflect a positive image of yourself. Stories are also there to shake you, unnerve you, make you see yourself anew."

Source: Book: A Man of Two Faces - Viet Thanh Nguyen

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1 Question

If the purpose of communication is to either entertain, inform or persuade - then how do you optimise your team meetings to stay on purpose?

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