Your Sorting Hat: On investing in yourself, goal pursuit and anchoring by anger
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 16, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"How much did you spend last month on -
Eating out Vs Gym?
Vacation Vs Training/ learning?
Your spending tells you if you are just a 'Consumer' or an 'Investor' in yourself.”
II.
"You will have 3-4 careers in your lifetime, unlike previous generations.
Every new expertise you grow in your current role is building you up for the next."
III.
"Wars are won not by the biggest armies but by the ones with the right Initiative.
At work, taking initiative and action helps overcome new challenges and a lack of skills."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Cal Newport, author and professor of computer science, in his book - Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout:
"This is what ultimately matters: where you end up, not the speed at which you get there, or the number of people you impress with your jittery busyness along the way...
...If we haven’t notably advanced our academic speciality, no amount of to-do list martyrdom can save us."
Source: Book: Slow Productivity by Cal Newport
II.
Jonathan Haidt, American social psychologist, on goals and pleasure, in hhos book - The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom :
"When it comes to goal pursuit, it really is the journey that counts, not the destination. Set for yourself any goal you want. Most of the pleasure will be had along the way, with every step that takes you closer. The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than the relief of taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long hike. If you went on the hike only to feel that pleasure, you are a fool."
Source: Book: Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
1 Question
What is the resentment or anger that you are holding on to? Where does it anchor your life, that you do not wish to sail away from?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times