Your Sorting Hat: On the gift of curiosity, determining your life and letting go of regret
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jul 18, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Learn to be curious. It is a gift to yourself.
Curiosity lets you ask questions, find answers and try new things.
Continuous curiosity makes you a better learner, doer and leader."
II.
"To walk, you must fall.
To achieve, you must fail.
To create, you must face criticism."
III.
"Face the toughest part of your work every day and it will become effortless.
You will be invincible when you know that you can do it all on your own."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Julius Caesar, Roman general and statesman, urges rationality over emotion, in his anti-lynching speech, as recorded by the historian Sallust on the Catiline conspiracy - Sallust: War with Catiline (Bellum_Catilinae) :
"Members of the Senate, all men who deliberate upon difficult questions had best be devoid of hatred, friendship, anger and pity. When those feelings stand in the way, the mind cannot at all easily discern the truth, and no one has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.
When you apply your intellect, it prevails; if passion takes control, it is master, whereas the mind is entirely impotent."
Source: Book: Influence - War with Catiline by Sallust
II.
Ichiro Kishimi, Japanese philosopher and Adlerian psychologist, shares a powerful frame to determine your future, in his book - The Courage To Be Disliked: How to free yourself, change your life and achieve real happiness -
"No matter what has occurred in your life up to this point, it should have no bearing at all on how you live from now on.’ That you, living in the here and now, are the one who determines your own life."
Source: Book: The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi
1 Question
What is your latest regret? Does it help you? If not, how can you let it go?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times