Your Sorting Hat: On putting in the hours, being happy and being wrong
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (May 02, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Weightlifting is easy to understand and learn.
But you build muscle only after you put in the hours and months.
Similarly, a job profile is simple but mastery and rewards come with effort and time."
II.
"Being confident helps you skill up faster.
Being skilled at work boosts your confidence.
Skills and confidence feed each other. Start with either one."
III.
"Poker players bet aggressively with large stacks and conservatively with small.
When you can afford to lose, be optimistic,
When you can't afford to lose, be paranoid."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Michael Singer, author and former software developer, explores the inner space, in his NYT bestseller - The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself :
"If you want to be happy, you have to let go of the part of you that wants to create melodrama. This is the part that thinks there’s a reason not to be happy. You have to transcend the personal, and as you do, you will naturally awaken to the higher aspects of your being. In the end, enjoying life’s experiences is the only rational thing to do. You’re sitting on a planet spinning around in the middle of absolutely nowhere. Go ahead, take a look at reality. You’re floating in empty space in a universe that goes on forever. If you have to be here, at least be happy and enjoy the experience. You’re going to die anyway. Things are going to happen anyway. Why shouldn’t you be happy? You gain nothing by being bothered by life’s events. It doesn’t change the world; you just suffer. There’s always going to be something that can bother you, if you let it."
Source: Book: The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
II.
Sun Tzu, renowned Chinese general and writer, redefines skill, in his work on military strategy and philosophy - The Art of War : -
"To win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill."
Source: Book: The Art of War by Sun Tzu
1 Question
If we learn something new when we realise that we were wrong, then how many times were you wrong yesterday? Last week? If none or very few, then - is 'being right always', your biggest block to further learning?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times