Your Sorting Hat: On reframing challenges, amplifying value and disciplined self care
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Nov 12, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Reframe every challenge as a question:
Not 'Why is this happening to me?' but 'What is this teaching me?'
Shifting your perspective is often the first step to solving the problem."
II.
"Make mistakes—but make them worth it.
Mistakes that come from effort and curiosity teach you far more than the safe choices you never risked."
III.
"The fastest way to add value to your team is by amplifying others' efforts.
Help a peer, support a junior colleague, or streamline a process.
Collaboration is a skill that pays back tenfold."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Ryan Holiday, author and modern Stoic evangelist, in - Discipline is Destiny:
“Discipline is the strongest form of self-care. It is ignoring the temporary discomfort of discipline in favor of the long-term payoff of a meaningful life."
Source: Book: Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday
II.
Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, on adapting to change, from Meditations:
"You have power over your mind—not outside events.
Realize this, and you will find strength."
Source: Book: Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
1 Question
What is one thing you’re saying “Yes” to this week that’s draining you? How can you set a boundary instead?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times