Your Sorting Hat: Showing up, being one of a kind and creating value
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Feb 14, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday! It's Valentine's Day and a good time to set and fall in love with your career goals for the year!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"When you try to win an argument - you succeed maybe half the time.
When you try to learn in an argument - you succeed every single time."
II.
"Show up. On time.
As a team member, showing up is half your job.
As a leader, showing up raises the bar for quality and size of results."
III.
"Solutions are temporary. Processes are enduring.
Seek to find and build processes that give you solutions when you need them.
These are processes around work, people and health."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
R Buckminster Fuller, inventor, philosopher and architect, believes in unlimited potential of a human being -
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly...
...Never forget that you are one of a kind. Never forget that if there weren't any need for you in all your uniqueness to be on this earth, you wouldn't be here in the first place. And never forget, no matter how overwhelming life's challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person."
Source: Source: Goodreads
II.
Barack Obama, former US President, talks about identity and recognition in his presidential memoir - A Promised Land -
"To be known. To be heard. To have one’s unique identity recognized and seen as worthy. It was a universal human desire, I thought, as true for nations and peoples as it was for individuals."
Source: Book: A Promised Land by Barack Obama
1 Question
How are you creating value today? Ask this question in your career and relationships - each time you are ready to grow.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
Buckminster Fuller's emphasis one change because of one person in very inspiring. Thanks for bringing it out.