Your Sorting Hat: On matching values, deep work and paying the price
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 25, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Does your personal values match with your team's or firm's core values?
If yes - your chances of happiness and success are much higher.
If no - you are usually better off finding another job."
II.
"Trust un-equally. Each colleague, client and manager is different.
Repeated and consistent actions, not words - qualify your trust."
III.
"Take neither advice nor criticism to heart.
Take time to judge whether it will work for you."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Cal Newport, computer science Professor and author, explains the meaning and need for deep work in his book - Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World-
"To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction. Put another way, the type of work that optimizes your performance is deep work.
The Deep Work Hypothesis: The ability to perform deep work is becoming increasingly rare at exactly the same time it is becoming increasingly valuable in our economy. As a consequence, the few who cultivate this skill, and then make it the core of their working life, will thrive."
Source: Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport
II.
Anne Frank, 14 year old author and Holocaust victim, offers the reason and need for empathy in human dealings, in her world renowned posthumously published work - The Diary of a Young Woman :
"But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem."
Source: Book: Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
1 Question
What price are you willing to pay - to master a skill or a role? What price needs to be paid?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times