Your Sorting Hat: On using your fears, 3 layers of conversation and fast-tracking your journey
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Sep 17, 2024)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"When choosing a job or career, focus on three things:
- Income, to meet your needs and secure your future.
- Identity, to be independent and reflect who you truly are.
- Purpose, to find meaning, growth, and make an impact."
II.
"The world pays for outcomes, not for your time. Hence being busy is not the same as being productive.
Either add more skills or achieve mastery in one. Use that to deliver better outcomes and thus earn more."
III.
"Fear is natural. It means you are pushing beyond your comfort zone.
Harness it for energy. Let it guide your learning and drive your growth."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Charles Duhigg, American journalist, his latest book in 2024 - Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection -
"The first one is that many discussions are actually three different conversations. There are practical, decision-making conversations that focus on What’s This Really About? There are emotional conversations, which ask How Do We Feel? And there are social conversations that explore Who Are We? We are often moving in and out of all three conversations as a dialogue unfolds. However, if we aren’t having the same kind of conversation as our partners, at the same moment, we’re unlikely to connect with each other."
Source: Book: Supercommunicators - Charles Duhigg
II.
Oliver Burkeman, British author, in his book on Time Management - Four Thousand Weeks -
"It’s alarming to face the prospect that you might never truly feel as though you know what you’re doing, in work, marriage, parenting, or anything else. But it’s liberating, too, because it removes a central reason for feeling self-conscious or inhibited about your performance in those domains in the present moment: if the feeling of total authority is never going to arrive, you might as well not wait any longer to give such activities your all—to put bold plans into practice, to stop erring on the side of caution. It is even more liberating to reflect that everyone else is in the same boat, whether they’re aware of it or not."
Source: Book: Four Thousand Weeks - Oliver Burkeman
1 Question
Do you use a mentor to fast-track your journey? Or do you prefer your own pace?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times