Careers, Life and Questions (Jul 04, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Your comfort zone is your biggest roadblock to career growth and greatness..
You take on new skills, tasks and goals only when you step outside it.
Get comfortable with being uncomfortable every day and you will be unstoppable."
II.
"Car racing teaches that - to finish first, you must first finish.
Or choose endurance over speed. Avoid choices that can crash your career.
At work - the ability to finish tasks matters more than flashes of brilliance. "
III.
"Why should your audience listen to you?
Will they understand you? Will they remember?
Every day you get to choose how effective you are as a communicator."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Paramahansa Yogananda, acclaimed Indian yogi and guru, on meditation in his autobiography - Autobiography of a Yogi :
"You may control a mad elephant;
You may shut the mouth of the bear and the tiger;
Ride the lion and play with the cobra;
By alchemy you may learn your livelihood;
You may wander through the universe incognito;
Make vassals of the gods; be ever youthful;
You may walk in water and live in fire;
But control of the mind is better and more difficult."
Source: Book: Autobiography of a Yogi by Paramahansa Yogananda
II.
Hector Garcia, Spanish author on Japanese culture, shares an insight on happiness, in his bestseller - Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life : -
"The happiest people are not the ones who achieve the most. They are the ones who spend more time than others in a state of flow...
...Concentrating on one thing at a time may be the single most important factor in achieving flow."
Source: Book: Ikigai by Hector Garcia
1 Question
The most powerful question you can ask is - What do I need to accomplish today?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times