Your Sorting Hat: On the best ideas, throwing yourself fully and your best influencer
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Aug 22, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"A better job title is not a sign of career growth.
Measure progress by the decisions or outcomes you can now be trusted with."
II.
"Your greatest success will come from the skills you are best at.
But first invest those hours in many skills, to uncover your unique edge."
III.
"The best ideas of the smartest people are available to you.
Build the habit of reading books and you are never short of great ideas."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
C Joybell C, author, on the only way to live :
"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."
Source: Online quote by C Joybell C
II.
Naval Ravikant, entrepreneur, on self and others, as recorded by Eric Jorgenson in The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness -
"If you’re not willing to do a wholesale, 24/7, 100 percent swap with who that person is, then there is no point in being jealous...
...The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations, and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single player."
Source: Almanack of Naval Ravikant
1 Question
Who brings out the best in you? Why? How?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times