Your Sorting Hat: On making mistakes, breaking down and subtraction
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jun 25, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"The current task is the most important one. Not the previous one. Not the next one.
Once you master that mindset, you give each task the focus it deserves.”
II.
"If you are learning a new skill, you are failing a lot and maybe getting laughed at. And also growing your capability.
If you seem to be drowning under work, you are failing a lot and then picking yourself up. And also growing your capacity.
Growth is meant to be messy and uncomfortable and unforgiving. Keep growing."
III.
"While discussing your mistake with your manager, being defensive makes it worse.
Managers know that mistakes will be made. They want to know if you have learnt from it or not."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Graham Greene, leading novelist, on unshackling one's mind, in his book - The Heart of the Matter :
"A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible."
Source: Book: Heart of the Matter by Graham Greene
II.
Ernest Hemingway, American writer and Nobel laureate, on why it is ok to break down, in his book - A Farewell to Arms:
"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills."
Source: Book: Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
1 Question
Instead of adding, what can you subtract from your day to make it better?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times