Your Sorting Hat: On knowing your limits, choosing amongst sufferings and restarting
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Aug 01, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Every solution has boundaries and limits.
When a problem lies outside those limits, you find a different solution.
Likewise, know what you don't know, and seek help outside your expertise."
II.
"If you choose a career or a goal, it will dictate how you will live your life.
If you choose how you will live your life, it will dictate which goals are possible.
Which path are you on?"
III.
"Criticism works best when they know you care -
For them and their success."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Brianna Wiest, author, talks about the hard stuff of life, in her bestseller - 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think :
"Everything is hard in some way. It’s hard to be in the wrong relationship. It’s hard to be in the right one. It’s hard to be broke and miserable, it’s hard to achieve your dreams. It’s hard to be stuck in the middle, not really feeling anything at all. Everything is hard, but you choose your hard. You choose what’s worth it. You don’t choose whether or not you’ll suffer, but you do choose what you want to suffer for."
Source: Book: 101 Essays - Brianna Wiest
II.
Socrates, Greek philosopher, on celebrating one's own misfortunes -
"If all our misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be content to take their own and depart."
Source: Quote: Socrates
1 Question
If you could rejoin and restart your current job today, what would you immediately stop doing? What would you start doing?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times