Your Sorting Hat: Reversible decisions, systems over goals and finding your failure
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (May 03, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Your daily decisions are of 2 types - reversible and irreversible.
Learn to recognise the reversible decisions and take them quickly."
II.
"You are changed by who you listen to.
Choose your friends, teachers and leaders."
III.
"Sports prepares you to fail often and get up each time - an invaluable life skill.
There will be times when you will fail, and be alone, with no one to help you out."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
James Clear, author of the New York Times bestseller - Atomic Habits - talks about the necessity of systems for success :
"Problem #1: Winners and losers have the same goals..
- Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress...
- The purpose of setting goals is to win the game. The purpose of building systems is to continue playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single accomplishment. It is about the cycle of endless refinement and continuous improvement. Ultimately, it is your commitment to the process that will determine your progress."
Source: Book: Atomic Habits by James Clear
II.
Indra Nooyi, former CEO of Pepsico and the first woman of colour and immigrant to run a Fortune 50 company, talks about her leadership learnings in her memoir - My Life in Full :
"Good business demands tough decisions based on rigorous analysis and unwavering follow-through. Emotion can’t really play a part. The challenge we all face as leaders is to let the feelings churn inside you but then to present a calm exterior, and I learned to do that."
Source: Book: My Life in Full by Indra Nooyi
1 Question
Where or when do you fail? Is there a pattern?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times