Your Sorting Hat: Relentless consistency, mental chatter and executing your goal
Career Growth
Careers, Life and Questions (May 10, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"If you dodge timely feedback, annual appraisals will stress you.
Instead seek regular feedback, and get time to grow or change."
II.
"Hitting or missing a goal, by itself, does not define your abilities.
A better measure of your competence is through process and progress."
III.
"Relentless consistency - is your best hack for professional success.
To Hack something, thus is about what works and not about shortcuts. "
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Matt Haig, bestselling fiction and non-fiction British author, speaks on hope and what works in troubled times in his heart warming writing - The Comfort Book :
"The most powerful moment in life is when you decide not to be scared anymore."
Source: Book: The Comfort Book by Matt Haig
II.
Ethan Kross, neuroscientist and experiential psychologist, explores his specialty of emotional regulation in his fascinating book - Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It :
"The reason rituals are so effective at helping us manage our inner voices is that they’re a chatter-reducing cocktail that influences us through several avenues. For one, they direct our attention away from what’s bothering us; the demands they place on working memory to carry out the tasks of the ritual leave little room for anxiety and negative manifestations of the inner voice. This might explain why pregame rituals abound in sports, providing a distraction at the most anxiety-filled moment.
Many rituals also provide us with a sense of order, because we perform behaviors we can control. For example, we can’t control what will happen to our children throughout their lives, and we can protect them only to a limited degree, which is a source of chatter for many parents. But when they are born, we can baptize them or perform any other of a variety of birth rituals that provide us with an illusion of control."
Source: Book: Chatter by Ethan Kross
1 Question
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times