Your Sorting Hat: On switching vs mastering, decision making and team success
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jul 16, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"You can change jobs or learn to succeed in the current one.
In life too, you can either walk out of situations or master them."
II.
"People carry internal mental scripts regarding jobs, salaries and careers.
One thinks - I am doing my time, 9 to 6. Don't ask me for more.
Another thinks - I am going to run this one day. What will you let me handle today?
These scripts play out in their conversations, work and ultimately their successes.
It's never too late to reword your mental script and thus your outcomes."
III.
"There are two types of goals - avoidance and approach goals.
Examples - 1. Stop smoking VS Get fit. 2. Don't fail in exam VS Get an 'A' in the test.
Avoidance goals are negative, stressful and thus harder to achieve. Approach goals are positive, motivational and easier to sustain. Where possible, convert avoidance into approach goals and improve your odds of success."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
John F Kenney, US President, in his book - Profiles in Courage - :
"A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality."
Source: Book: Profiles in Courage by John F Kennedy
II.
Doris Lessing, British novelist, on losing out from overthinking, in The Golden Notebook -
"I am a person who continually destroys the possibilities of a future because of the numbers of alternative viewpoints I can focus on the present."
Source: Book: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
1 Question
You get the maximum support when you play for the team's win. So what can you do to help the team succeed? And how will you use the team's success to help you succeed?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times