Your Sorting Hat: On making it personal, keeping it easy and diversifying your identity
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 19, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Define your goal at work. Take the 'decision' to succeed.
Until you make it personal, someone else will beat you to it."
II.
"Outcomes >> Output >> Input
Show results to succeed. Outcomes matter at work.
When outcomes are missing or delayed, talk about your output.
When output has failed, only then show your input i.e. your intent and efforts.
When input is missing, the career is short."
III.
"No. Yes. Stop.
No. No. No. No. No. No. No. Yes. Stop.
A sale closes with a Yes. A job search stops with a Yes.
Each 'No' is simply a step closer to a 'Yes'."
3 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Daniel Kaheneman, psychologist and economist, puts a pause in our thinking, in his book on rationality and irrationality - Thinking, Fast and Slow :
"Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition. These findings add to the growing evidence that good mood, intuition, creativity, gullibility, and increased reliance on System 1 form a cluster. At the other pole, sadness, vigilance, suspicion, an analytic approach, and increased effort also go together. A happy mood loosens the control of System 2 over performance: when in a good mood, people become more intuitive and more creative but also less vigilant and more prone to logical errors."
Source: Book: Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
II.
Warren Buffett, legendary investor, values simplicity, in his biography by Alice Shroeder - The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life : -
"You only have to do a very few things right in your life so long as you don't do too many things wrong...
...There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult."
Source: Source: Book: The Snowball - Alice Shroeder; Internet sources
1 Question
What is your current professional identity? How can you diversify it to either earn more or be more fulfilled?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times