Your Sorting Hat: On small sparks and fewer wrongs
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jun 20, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"A job can be more than a source of income.
A good job gives you an identity - a way to express your being and values.
A great job gives you meaning - a cause greater than yourself to work for."
II.
"You will face the same lesson in different ways until you learn it.
Then you can move on to the next one. But learning never stops.
Life is full of lessons as long as you live."
III.
"Progress is not always about making more right decisions.
Success is often the result of fewer wrong decisions.
Look for ways to reduce and to eliminate."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
David Goggins, - US Navy SEAL and endurance athlete and author - talks about how to build massive accomplishments, in his biography - Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds :
"We all need small sparks, small accomplishments in our lives to fuel the big ones. Think of your small accomplishments as kindling. When you want a bonfire, you don’t start by lighting a big log. You collect some witch’s hair—a small pile of hay or some dry, dead grass. You light that, and then add small sticks and bigger sticks before you feed your tree stump into the blaze. Because it’s the small sparks, which start small fires, that eventually build enough heat to burn the whole f***ing forest down."
Source: Book: Can't Hurt Me by David Goggins
II.
Edward de Bono, Maltese psychologist, author and originator of the term lateral thinking, defines it in his book - Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity : -
"The purpose of lateral thinking is not to be right but to be effective. Being right means being right all the time. Being effective means being right only at the end...
...A wrong idea at some stage can lead to a right later on."
Source: Book: Lateral Thinking by Edward de Bono
1 Question
What are you doing today that will make you proud of yourself by the end of this year?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times