Your Sorting Hat: On the right questions, secret to happiness and power of commitment
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (May 07, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Asking the right questions can get you ahead. Here are some -
- Can I join you?
- How does this work?
- What is the root cause of this problem?”
II.
"Choosing a member for your team? Go for motivation over qualification.
The motivated person will find a way around problems, failures and rejections."
III.
"What are your manager's priorities? Your customer's? Your team member's?
When you don't know the answers, your own priorities are at risk!"
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Stephen King, American author also known as the 'King of Horror, on writing well in his book - On Writing - A Memoir of the Craft:
"The more you read, the less apt you are to make a fool of yourself with your pen or word processor."
Source: Book: On Writing by Stephen King
II.
Neil Gaiman, English author, on the secret to happiness, in his book - The Graveyard Book:
"It's like the people who believe they'll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn't work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. If you see what I mean."
Source: Book: The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
1 Question
Which projects are not working out for you? Which projects are not working out because you have not committed fully?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times