Your Sorting Hat: On job interviews, being young and focusing on opportunities
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jun 04, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Job interviews are never perfect. The best employers often hire the wrong people and miss out on the right ones.
Don't beat yourself on a failed job interview or two. Attend enough interviews and get luck on your side.”
II.
"Know the tradeoff between speed and quality at work. What is critical for you?
Either you deliver at the highest speed. And then achieve an acceptable quality.
Or you deliver at the highest quality. And then achieve an acceptable speed."
III.
"Want to find extra time in your day? Audit your day - in 15-minute blocks.
Is that task, action or chat taking you closer to your goals? If not, cut it out."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Peter Attia MD, Canadian author and physician, on being young, in his book - Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity :
"I think people get old when they stop thinking about the future,” Ric told me. “If you want to find someone’s true age, listen to them. If they talk about the past and they talk about all the things that happened that they did, they’ve gotten old. If they think about their dreams, their aspirations, what they’re still looking forward to—they’re young."
Source: Book: Outlive by Peter Attia
II.
Matthew Desmond, sociologist, on building the future, in his book, Poverty by America:
"When we refuse to recognize what works, we risk swallowing the lie that nothing does. We risk imagining the future only as more of the same. We risk giving in to despair, perhaps the most exculpating of all emotions, and submitting to cynicism, perhaps the most conservative of all belief systems. This can suffocate meaningful action, and it certainly doesn’t inspire others to join the cause."
Source: Book: Poverty by Mathew Desmond
1 Question
Are you currently focused on opportunities or problems? Focused on the future or the past?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times