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What gets you up every morning?

What gets you up every morning?

The interviewer needs to understand what drives you. What are your motivations? What are you most passionate about? Will this job serve your larger purpose? He needs to understand if this job fits you.
Do's
• Tell about your work related passions and how this position fits you
• Narrate how this profession and job fulfills your life purpose
• Tell about a real life example where a project excited you and you worked day and night to complete
• Tell how this profession gets you into the flow
• Tell how this job keeps you engaged and enriches you to become better
Don'ts
• Don't talk about money, position or the corner room
• It is not about what time you get up or go to bed
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• We are hardwired to make these mistakes • Few biases are simply evolutionary • These errors affect all of us including the bright ones • Experience is just not enough to overcome • but expertise is required to recognize and overcome

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Few ways to mitigate these biases are · Learn to recognize the bias · Use slow, effortful and logical thinking (System 2) · Avoid fast, automatic and effortless thinking (System 1) · Avoid negotiations which are thrust upon when not ready · Learn through use of stories, examples, exercises · Bring an outsider perspective