Your Sorting Hat: On slowing down to win, on results and regrets and on doing less for more
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 17, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"When speeding up doesn't solve your problems, slow down.
Observe more, gather resources, and decide on priorities.
Now choose to complete only what gives the highest gains."
II.
"What are the skills that you are using at work right now?
Which quality does your employer value most in you?
Which outcomes will the market value you for, 3 years down?"
III.
"What makes you angry? Usually a threat or a potential loss.
Anger triggers from weaknesses in your armour. Find those chinks.
Now you know what to work on to become stronger. And calmer."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Bruce Lee, martial artist and actor, was also a philosopher :
"Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way around or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
Source: Book: Be Water, My Friend by Shannon Lee
II.
Ankur Warikoo, entrepreneur and social media influencer, on regrets and results, in his book - Do Epic Sh*t :
"Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: regret or results. A year from now you will wish you had unfollowed emotionally draining people. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘no’ more often. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘yes’ to yourself more often. A year from now, you will never be sure of the results."
Source: Book: Do Epic Shit by Ankur Warikoo
1 Question
Where can you do less work but better?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times