Your Sorting Hat: Stop losing sleep, recovery from grief and self created obstacles
Careers, Life and Questions (Jun 07, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"You have 2 ways to get a higher salary - level up or role change.
Either you can sharpen your skills, or grow your responsibilities."
II.
"Are you losing sleep over a team member's behaviour or comments?
Your best tool - speak up to discuss and create relationship agreements."
III.
"Know you are growing when :
- you take a decision where you needed advice earlier
- you handle a task/ project where you assisted earlier
- you can be trusted with results without supervision."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO, writes about her journey after the loss of her husband and how one can recover faster from grief, in her book co-authored with Adam Grant - Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy:
"We plant the seeds of resilience in the ways we process negative events. After spending decades studying how people deal with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman found that three P’s can stunt recovery:
(1) Personalization—the belief that we are at fault;
(2) Pervasiveness—the belief that an event will affect all areas of our life; and
(3) Permanence—the belief that the aftershocks of the event will last forever.
...Hundreds of studies have shown that children and adults recover more quickly when they realize that hardships aren’t entirely their fault, don’t affect every aspect of their lives, and won’t follow them everywhere forever."
Source: Book: Option B by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant
II.
Lilly Singh, YouTube phenomenon, uses her hilarious no-nonsense tone to provide a success manual for millenials (and everyone else) in her book - How to Be a Bawse: A Guide to Conquering Life :
"From now on, start asking yourself WHY you feel a certain way, WHAT made you perform a certain action, and HOW you could do things differently. The information you discover is powerful because it helps you to discover patterns and in turn use your mind productively and efficiently. After all, your mind is your most powerful tool, but it’s not useful if you don’t know how to use it. It’s like trying to fix a printer with a stapler: it doesn’t work. Trust me, I’ve tried."
Source: Book: How to Be a Bawse by Lilly Singh
1 Question
What is the biggest obstacle you have created for yourself? Name at least 5 ways you can demolish or bypass it.
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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