Your Sorting Hat: On trust, presence and anchors
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 28, 2021)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Earn trust at work. Guard it well.
You cannot use your best skills if you are not trusted with the big work."
II.
"Change your calendar, your context or your conversation.
Amazing insights and results emerge when you challenge your routine."
III.
"Status quo bias is your emotional preference for the current situation. This makes you blind to better decisions at work.
The biggest threat to your job is from that new colleague and that new startup - who have no such bias."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Eckhart Tolle, popular spiritual teacher, highlights being present in the moment in his best-selling book - The Power of Now -
“Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there', or being in the present but wanting to be in the future."
"So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting, snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, 'Sorry to have kept you waiting' you can reply, 'That’s all right, I wasn’t waiting. I was just standing.' "
Source: Book: Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
II.
Tim Ferriss, author and investor, promotes challenging goals in his popular first book - 4-hour Workweek - :
"It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for the mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for 'realistic' goals, paradoxically making them the most time and energy-consuming."
Source: Book: 4-hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
1 Question
What's your anchor in times of stress? If you do not know, find it or create one - whether family, music, meditation, exercise etc.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times