Your Sorting Hat: Routine over motivation, when nobody cares and subtract to gain
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (May 31, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"If you rely on motivation alone, you will not put in the work every day
You build routines and rituals so that your goal gets the time it needs. "
II.
"Patience or lack of patience, is the difference between great and ordinary results
Consistent patient effort builds expertise which impatient intense effort doesn't."
III.
"Not doing something is easier than taking action to change the status quo.
A bias for action will not always work out well but will always set you apart. "
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Ben Horowitz, American entrepreneur and investor, gets real about emotions and actions, in his book - The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers : :
"When things go wrong in your company, nobody cares. The press doesn’t care, your investors don’t care, your board doesn’t care, your employees don’t care, even your mama doesn’t care. Nobody cares. ...
...All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.
It’s best to spend zero time on what you could have done and all of your time on what you might do.
Because in the end, nobody cares, just run your company."
Source: Book: Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
II.
Robert Cialdini, the guru of Persuasion, explains the concept of 'social proof' where people copy the actions of others, in his seminal book - Influence: Psychology of Persuastion (earlier Influence: Science and Practice) :
"First, we seem to assume that if a lot of people are doing the same thing, they must know something we don’t...
...In general, when we are unsure of ourselves, when the situation is unclear or ambiguous, when uncertainty reigns, we are most likely to look to and accept the actions of others as correct."
Source: Book: Influence - Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
1 Question
What can you remove from your environment that will make life a little easier for you?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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