Your Sorting Hat: On self-leadership, luck and equal efforts
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (May 14, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Self Leadership - is the idea of leading Yourself.
Do you take ownership of who you are? What you do? Where you are going?
Do you exercise control over your behaviour? Your actions? Your time?”
II.
"The newbie succeeds simply by avoiding mistakes.
Learn what you could do wrong and how to avoid them."
III.
"It pays to be kind when someone blunders or gets it wrong.
For then it is easier to own up when it is your turn to slip up."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
J R R Tolkien, English writer, in his epic fantasy - The Lord of the Rings:
"Frodo: I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened.
Gandalf: So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us."
Source: Book: Lord of the Rings by J R R Tolkien
II.
Ernest Hemingway, American Nobel Laureate, on luck and preparation, in his novella - The Old Man and the Sea:
"Only I have no luck any more. But who knows? Maybe today. Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
Source: Book: The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
1 Question
Are you putting in the efforts that justify the outcomes you want?
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Devashish Chakravarty
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Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times