Your Sorting Hat: Rankings don't matter, happiness muscle and choose one thing

Career Tuesday

Careers, Life and Questions (Jun 28, 2022)

Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!

3 Career Ideas

I.

"The FIFA Football World Cup in 2018

And the T20 Cricket World Cup in 2021 -

Were won by teams ranked outside the Top 5 before the tournament.

Winning at Work depends on what you do now and not your last job or degree."

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II.

"When you contribute to and celebrate the successes of team members

You greatly increase the opportunities and chances of your own success."

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III.

"Good advice works best within a set of boundaries.

Hence, choose which advice is useful for you today."

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2 Life Quotes from Books

I.

Lori Gottlieb, psychotherapist, talks about loss and coping with it, in her NYT bestseller and memoir  - Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: : A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed :   

"We can’t have change without loss, which is why so often people say they want change but nonetheless stay exactly the same...

..We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists."

Source: Book: Maybe You Should Talk by Lori Gottlieb

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II.

Timothy Ferriss, American author and lifestyle guru, explores life lessons from celebrities in his podcast show and shares them in his bestselling book  - Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers. Here's a couple on 'happiness' :

"The most important trick to be happy is to realize that happiness is a choice that you make and a skill that you develop. You choose to be happy, and then you work at it. It’s just like building muscles...

...Desire is a contract you make with yourself to be unhappy until you get what you want."

Source: Book: Tools of Titans by Tim Ferriss

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1 Question

If there is only one thing you could accomplish tomorrow, what would you like it to be?

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Until next week,

Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times

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