Your Sorting Hat: On goal stacking, Lombardi time and switching focus
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 29, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Bad advice - 'Follow your passion'.
Good advice - 'Master a skill and passion will follow'."
II.
"You will spend more time at your work desk today than in any other activity.
Notice your biggest time commitment. What do you want to achieve in that time?
What is your personal goal today? Can you use the time to grow every single day?"
III.
"Multitasking doesn’t work, but goal-stacking does.
Working on a project? Involve a junior team member.
The project gets completed, and someone gains skills - two goals achieved at once."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Vince Lombardi, a legendary American football coach, started meetings and practices 15 minutes before schedule. His rule said -
"If you are early, you are on time…
If you're on time, you're late...
If you're late, don't even bother showing up."
Source: Quote: Vince Lombardi
II.
Novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson on facing your troubles : -
"You cannot run away from a weakness, you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now and where you stand?"
Source: Quote: Robert Louis Stevenson
1 Question
What are you trying to avoid? Instead can you seek its opposite?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times