Your Sorting Hat: The Time-Out tool, downside of inheritance and ignoring how you are treated
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (Mar 15, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Regular task updates to your manager works wonders for you
A critical role you play - is to reduce risk and uncertainty."
II.
"Reading a book to finish it - is one option.
Skimming it to get the gist - is another."
III.
"'Taking a time-out' - is a tool you can use more often.
In messy negotiations or before sending that email -
Take time to calm down, think and get back in a bit."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Anderson Cooper, journalist and political commentator, explores the pitfalls of inherited wealth in his own family memoir - Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty :
"They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand."
Source: Book: Vanderbilt by Anderson Cooper
II.
Visual artist, Charlie Mackesy, muses is his book - The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse :
"Do you have any other advice?" asked the boy.
"Don't measure how valuable you are by the way you are treated," said the horse."
Source: Book: The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
1 Question
Which habit would you like to lose? Which habit would you like to pick up?
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Until next week,
Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times