Your Sorting Hat: Team effect, When stress is not bad and Starting ahead
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 29, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Join a team with a higher performance than yours, and soon you are one of them.
The reverse is also true. Quit low performing teams early, before they change you."
II.
"Ditch pessimism. Optimism works better for your career.
You enjoy your work, inspire others and survive tough times."
III.
"Realistic goals are overrated. Double or even 10x your targets.
You are pushed to experiment, learn faster and achieve more."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Brené Brown, American Professor and renowned Ted speaker, presents curiosity as a choice in her book - Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience :
"Choosing to be curious is choosing to be vulnerable because it requires us to surrender to uncertainty. We have to ask questions, admit to not knowing, risk being told that we shouldn't be asking, and, sometimes, make discoveries that lead to discomfort."
Source: Book: Atlas of the Heart by Brene Brown
II.
Award winning author, Emily Nagoski on stress in her book - Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle :
"The good news is that stress is not the problem. The problem is that the strategies that deal with stressors have almost no relationship to the strategies that deal with the physiological reactions our bodies have to those stressors. To be “well” is not to live in a state of perpetual safety and calm, but to move fluidly from a state of adversity, risk, adventure, or excitement, back to safety and calm, and out again. Stress is not bad for you; being stuck is bad for you."
Source: Book: Burnout by Emily Nagoski
1 Question
On a new project, instead of starting from scratch, can you find a way to start 2 steps ahead?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times