Your Sorting Hat: On weekly reflection, living in the present and creating an edge
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Oct 03, 2023)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"In any project, ask yourself regularly -
Are you working hard on the things that matter most?
A car zipping away in the wrong direction does not reach its destination."
II.
"Find meaning in your role, beyond earning money.
Why is this work important? Who do you impact?
When you find purpose, you unlock motivation within yourself. "
III.
"Reflection is a seldom used, but an easy hack for growth.
Reflect every weekend - on what worked and what could be better.
Pick what you want to change. Decide how you will do it next week."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (the company that gave us ChatGPT), cautions impatient founders, in his book - Startup Playbook :
"A successful startup takes a very long time—certainly much longer than most founders think at the outset. You cannot treat it as an all-nighter. You have to eat well, sleep well, and exercise. You have to spend time with your family and friends. You also need to work in an area you’re actually passionate about—nothing else will sustain you for ten years."
Source: Book: Startup Playbook by Sam Altman
II.
Ernest Hemingway, American writer, offers a simple measure of a good life, in his bestselling novel - For Whom The Bell Tolls : -
"There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
Source: Book: For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
1 Question
How do you create and maintain an edge over everyone else in the game? Is it through talent, effort, risk appetite, people skills, attitude or something else?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times