Your Sorting Hat: On your unfair advantage, lies from resistance and becoming through habits
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Apr 22, 2025)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"The Momentum Myth
You don’t need motivation. You need motion.
Most people wait for energy to strike before acting. But action creates energy.
Start with five minutes today—even on your worst day.
Because consistency, not intensity, builds careers."
II.
"Your Unfair Advantage
Everyone has one—but most people never name it.
It might be your curiosity, network, storytelling ability, or resilience.
Double down on your unfair advantage. That’s where exponential career growth begins."
III.
"The Invisible Career Skill: Translation
No matter your role, you’re constantly translating—between ideas and action, between teams and colleagues, between jargon and outcomes.
Get better at translation and you’ll be known as the person who ‘makes things happen.’ "
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Barbara Sher, career coach, on dreams and resistance in Refuse to Choose:
"Resistance will tell you anything to keep you from doing your work. It will perjure, fabricate; it will seduce you. Resistance is always lying and always full of s***."
Source: Book: Refuse to Choose by Barbara Sher
II.
Cal Newport, on focused work in a distracted world -
"Clarity about what matters provides clarity about what does not."
Source: Book: Deep Work by Cal Newport
1 Question
Who are you becoming through your current habits? Do those habits match the person you want to be 6 months from now?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times