Your Sorting Hat: On how to win games, how to buy time and how to choose people
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (May 23, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Change is uncomfortable -
Except when not changing is worse.
To get lasting results, start by changing your identity."
II.
"Your chances of winning depends on the number of players in the game.
Choose to do what others won't do or can't do -
And thus win the game with the fewest players."
III.
"A goal is meaningless - without a system in place to achieve it.
This is true both for you, and for your team."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Morgan Housel, author, connects money and time, in his book - The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed and happiness :
"Money’s greatest intrinsic value—and this can’t be overstated—is its ability to give you control over your time...
...Use money to gain control over your time, because not having control of your time is such a powerful and universal drag on happiness. The ability to do what you want, when you want, with who you want, for as long as you want to, pays the highest dividend that exists in finance."
Source: Book: The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel
II.
George S Clason, American author, wrote about financial wisdom, during The Great Depression, in his book - The Richest Man in Babylon : -
"Learning was of two kinds: the one being the things we learned and knew, and the other being the training that taught us how to find out what we did not know."
Source: Book: The Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason
1 Question
Who do you spend time with - where you are uplifted? Where you are drained? Who are you to other people - an energy source or sink?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times