Your Sorting Hat: Playing the long game, dealing with strangers and being bold
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 22, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"As a manager, don't appraise a person by how they speak or work with you.
To judge correctly, check how they impact or work with people they don't need."
II.
"Are you playing the long or short game?
Tasks, results and opportunism for the short game.
Relationships and keeping your word for the long game."
III.
"Change Yourself or Your job. It is tough but is better than being stuck.
Take action when you are not growing, not appreciated or not respected."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Malcolm Gladwell, journalist and author, explores miscommunication and assumptions in the book - Talking To Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know :
"We think we can easily see into the hearts of others based on the flimsiest of clues. We jump at the chance to judge strangers. We would never do that to ourselves, of course. We are nuanced and complex and enigmatic. But the stranger is easy. If I can convince you of one thing in this book, let it be this: Strangers are not easy...
The thing we want to learn about a stranger is fragile. If we tread carelessly it will crumple under our feet... The right way to talk to strangers is with caution and humility."
Source: Book: Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper
II.
NYT bestselling author, Glennon Doyle, in her 2020 book - Untamed: Stop pleasing, Start living :
"This life is mine alone. So I have stopped asking people for directions to places they’ve never been."
Source: Book: Untamed by Glennon Doyle
1 Question
Can you do something bold today?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times