Your Sorting Hat: On the moment after failure, impediment to action and releasing control
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 28, 2025)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Resilience is built in the moments after failure. Not when you succeed.
In those moments - ask yourself : What can I salvage? What can I learn? Then act!”
II.
"Micro-learning is a great tool to become a lifelong learner when you invest daily.
Every 15-minute podcast, article, or video learning can compound your expertise."
III.
"Control is an illusion. Being a micromanager slows you down.
Focus on outcomes that matter most. For the rest, trust your team and the process."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Ryan Holiday, in The Obstacle Is the Way, on reframing setbacks:
"The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way."
Source: Book: The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
II.
Alan Watts, philosopher, in The Wisdom of Insecurity, on surrender:
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don’t grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead, you relax and float."
Source: Book: The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
1 Question
What’s one situation in your life or career where you need to release control and trust someone instead?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times