Your Sorting Hat: On starting your day right, types of value and having a purpose
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Aug 15, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday and 76th Independence Day celebrations from India!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"How swiftly does one respond to an email, call, or message?
Successful professionals are more inclined to provide prompt and timely responses.
Their reasons include signaling excellence and valuing each opportunity or interaction."
II.
"Why do you dress up for a meeting or interview?
Firstly, to become the person who puts in the effort for a positive outcome.
Secondly, to let the environment know of your commitment and seriousness."
III.
"Start your day off right.
Find one activity that puts you in control first thing in the morning.
It could be making your bed. Doing your workout. Or your meditation."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Adam Smith, 18th century pioneer of political economy, explains different concepts of Value, in the first modern work on Economics - The Wealth of Nations :
"The word VALUE, it is to be observed, has two different meanings, and sometimes expresses the utility of some particular object, and sometimes the power of purchasing other goods which the possession of that object conveys. The one may be called 'value in use;' the other, 'value in exchange.'
The things which have the greatest value in use have frequently little or no value in exchange; and, on the contrary, those which have the greatest value in exchange have frequently little or no value in use.
Nothing is more useful than water; but it will purchase scarce any thing; scarce any thing can be had in exchange for it. A diamond, on the contrary, has scarce any value in use; but a very great quantity of other goods."
Source: Book : Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
II.
Chuck Palahniuk, author, in his iconic novel (later a film) - Fight Club - -
"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you...
...It's only after you lose everything that you're free to do anything."
Source: Book: Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
1 Question
What is your purpose? Or how would your life feel like, if you found a purpose?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times