Your Sorting Hat: On responsiveness, inversion and adding value
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Aug 31, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Seek learning over salary. Acquire paying skills and income will follow."
II.
"Ask for small projects outside your comfort zone. If it works, the impact must be large. If it fails, the cost should be low.
Many small bets give you big results soon."
III.
"Revert and reply on time. Being responsive is a short cut to being trusted and reliable at work."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Cheryl Strayed, American writer and popular advice columnist of Dear Sugar, suggests acceptance as a solution for excessive worry -
“Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you’ll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you’ll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.”
Source:
Tiny Beautiful Things - book by Cheryl Strayed
II.
Charles T. Munger, billionaire investor, describes 'Inversion' as a problem solving technique and also avoiding huge failures :
"Invert, always invert: Turn a situation or problem upside down. Look at it backward. What happens if all our plans go wrong? Where don't we want to go, and how do you get there? Instead of looking for success, make a list of how to fail instead -- through sloth, envy, resentment, self-pity, entitlement, all the mental habits of self-defeat. Avoid these qualities and you will succeed. Tell me where I'm going to die, that is, so I don't go there."
Source:
Damn Right: Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger
1 Question
Where did you add value to a colleague today?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times