Your Sorting Hat: On teaching basics, regret vs rejection and restoring habits
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 01, 2025)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"If you don't deliver outcomes - you will neither grow nor succeed.
Irrespective of the intent, talents, skills or certificates you possess."
II.
"Imagine teaching one concept from your field to someone completely new.
What would you choose, and why does it matter?
How would this teaching also deepen your own understanding?"
III.
"The best professional connections are built on genuine interest, not on mere utility.
Instead of “How can they help me?”, ask, “How can I support their goals?”
The more sincerely you invest in others, the more reliable your network becomes."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Trevor Noah, in “Born a Crime”, on Adapting to Change:
“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to.”
Source: Book: Born a Crime by Trevor Noah
II.
Daniel Pink, in “Drive”, on Motivation:
“The secret to high performance and satisfaction—at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.”
Source: Book: Drive by Daniel Pink
1 Question
What is one habit you have dropped recently that you would like to pick up again? Why did you drop it in the first place?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times