Your Sorting Hat: On Your Sorting Hat: On ambition debt, solving for happy and the extra 2 hours
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 08, 2025)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"The problem isn’t ambition. It’s ambition debt.
You dream of switching careers, launching a business, writing a book—but these ambitions accumulate like debt when left unattended.
Start repaying them in micro-installments.
What 20-minute task today will pay off a chunk of your ambition debt?"
II.
"You need starter courage, not lifelong bravery.
You don’t need to be brave forever—just brave enough to start.
One email. One cold call. One click on “apply.”
Take the smallest leap. Courage will follow your momentum."
III.
"Many people confuse value with visibility.
Doing great work isn’t enough. Tell better stories. Show how your work makes a difference.
If you don’t talk about your value, someone else will define it for you—or worse, overlook it."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Jay Shetty, in Think Like a Monk -
"You don’t have to control your thoughts. You just have to stop letting them control you."
Source: Book: Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
II.
Mo Gawdat, former Google X executive, in Solve for Happy -
“Happiness is not about what the world gives you—happiness is what you think about what the world gives you."
Source: Book: Solve for Happy by Mo Gawdat
1 Question
If someone gifted you 2 extra hours today—with no strings attached—how would you use them? (And what does that tell you about what truly matters right now?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times