Your Sorting Hat: What matters most, many chairs approach and winning again
Career Tuesday
Careers, Life and Questions (May 24, 2022)
Wish you a Happy Career Tuesday!
3 Career Ideas
I.
"Remind yourself why you are in this job.
Do what it takes to make it work for you."
II.
"Learning what is right increases your value.
While being right can be great for your ego.
Can you drop your ego to seek new learnings, be wrong often and thus grow faster?"
III.
"When faced with a tough problem, don't look for answers but for right questions.
When faced with a tough decision, don't solve everything except what matters most."
2 Life Quotes from Books
I.
Ankur Warikoo, entrepreneur and social media influencer, writes about trying out multiple options before settling, in his bestselling book - Do Epic Sh*t : :
"Sit on as many chairs as you can before you find the one chair on which you feel you belong."
Source: Book: Do Epic Shit by Ankur Warikoo
II.
Tomorrow, 25 May is Towel Day - when fans of author Douglas Adams carry a towel in public to honor Adams' comedy science fiction phenomenon - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (also H2G2). Here the author pokes fun at the pursuit of achievement Vs the pursuit of leisure :
"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons."
Source: Book: Hitchhiker's Guide by Douglas Adams
1 Question
What did you learn from your last win? How will you use it next?
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Devashish Chakravarty
Author of YourSortingHat
Columnist for Careers at The Economic Times
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