Your Sorting Hat: On three priorities for 2025, discomfort and your career as a product
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Jan 07, 2025)
Happy New Year and welcome to your first Career Tuesday of 2025!
Let’s begin the year with clarity, courage, and curiosity!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"'Every January, the slate feels clean, but momentum comes from your habits—not the date on the calendar.'
What one daily habit can you adopt that aligns with the person you want to be at the end of this year?”
II.
"'Your resume opens doors, but your relationships keep them open.'
Make time this month to reconnect with mentors, colleagues, and friends—relationships are your most valuable career asset."
III.
"'2025 will be shaped not by how much you do, but by what you focus on.'
Identify three priorities for the year. If you focus on more than three, you’re likely spreading yourself too thin."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Will Smith, in the movie Pursuit of Happyness, on the power of having a dream and action on it:
"Don’t ever let someone tell you, you can’t do something. Not even me. You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you, you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period."
Source: Movie: Pursuit of Happyness
II.
Jason Sudeikis, in the web series Ted Lasso, on growth through discomfort:
"Taking on a challenge is a lot like riding a horse. If you’re comfortable while you’re doing it, you’re probably doing it wrong. Growth comes from discomfort, and that’s where you find success."
Source: Web Series: Ted Lasso
1 Question
If your career were a product, what’s your unique value proposition, and how do you communicate it?
If you enjoyed that, please share this email with others.
Like, share & follow Your Sorting Hat on Instagram here.
Sign up here to receive this email every week or read longer career articles here.
Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times