Your Sorting Hat: On looking foolish, focusing on possibilities and growing your reputation
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 07, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"To become a master, you will need to learn and practice
But to learn anything, you will first fail and look foolish.
There is no mastery until you have been down that path."
II.
"What new idea did you come up with at work this week?
With 52 weeks a year, how many ideas might become bestsellers?
One idea a week is all it takes to become the Go-To for your team!
III.
"Use your camera phone to Zoom in or Zoom out -
To create different pictures to choose from.
Use the same trick on problems to create different solutions."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Helen Tupper, entrepreneur and author, talks about surviving and thriving in a world where the linear career of the past does not exist, in her book - The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity, Design Your Career :
"We need to forget about plans and focus on possibilities."
Source: Book: Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper
II.
Alex Banayan, best-selling author, tracked down Bill Gates, Lady Gaga and top successful people, to uncover how they launched their careers, for his book - The Third Door: The Mindset of Success -
"Nobody is in control of who they are when they’re born,” she continued. “You’re born into the family you’re born into and you’re born into the circumstances you’re born into. So you just have to take what you can from where you’re at and not compare yourself to other people. You have to look at your path and know that whatever got you there, and where you’re going, is unique to you. You weren’t supposed to be any other way."
Source: Book: The Third Door by Alex Banayan
1 Question
How are you growing your reputation? How are you protecting it?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times