Your Sorting Hat: On replenishing energy, what if and definite expertise
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 18, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Work on your skills, for security and comfort through your career.
Find purpose in your work, for motivation and meaning.
Seek variety in what you do, for energy and excitement."
II.
"Exhausted from work? Switching jobs is probably the wrong answer.
Replenish your energy instead - whether relationships, exercise, hobbies."
III.
"When choosing a job, your decision is right when you know -
- the opportunity
- the risks
- the people."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
David Goggins - US Navy SEAL, endurance athlete and author - talks about how to go beyond the common human behaviour of tapping into barely 40% of one's capabilities, in his biography - Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds,-
"The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself. You wake up with them, you walk around with them, you go to bed with them, and eventually you act on them. Whether they be good or bad. We are all our own worst haters and doubters because self doubt is a natural reaction to any bold attempt to change your life for the better. You can’t stop it from blooming in your brain, but you can neutralize it, and all the other external chatter by asking, What if?"
Source: Book: Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
II.
Harper Lee, Presidential Medal of Freedom awardee and US author, provides some sage advice on how we wrongly view and hear the world her Pulitzer prize winning classic - To Kill a Mockingbird :
"People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for."
Source: Book: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
1 Question
What is your expertise where you understand differently and better than all others?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times