Your Sorting Hat: On identity-fueled goals, self-imposed limitations and your career narrative
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Dec 31, 2024)
Wish you a successful Career Tuesday and a successful new year ahead!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Choose your identity for the goals you want to reach, and go further than with willpower alone.
'I am a sportsperson/ fit person' - makes daily healthy eating and exercise a breeze.
'I am a teetotaller/non-smoker' - works better than counting days of abstinence.
'I am an investor' - gets you to act towards your financial goals.
What identities do you choose today to supercharge the coming year - 2025?”
II.
"Limitations are often self-imposed.
Question them: Is this a boundary you must honour or one you can dismantle?
Growth happens when you challenge what you had been believing is impossible."
III.
"Your career narrative isn't just what you've done; it's how you tell it.
Frame your experiences as a coherent, compelling story.
A strong narrative transforms your mindset, ambitions and efforts."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Glennon Doyle, in Untamed, on rejecting societal expectations:
"Every time you're given a choice between disappointing someone else and disappointing yourself, your duty is to disappoint that someone else. Your job, throughout your entire life, is to disappoint as many people as it takes to avoid disappointing yourself."
Source: Book: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
II.
Pema Chödrön, in When Things Fall Apart, on transformation:
"Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know."
Source: Book: When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
1 Question
What’s one thing you’ve been holding onto—an expectation, regret, or fear—that you can release this week to move forward?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times