Chandan R Honavar

I observe, learn, teach and reciprocate.

[DAN KOE @thedankoe]

https://t.co/OPGS7HUKaG

[Vijay Chandola - Career Tips @thinksageIN]

Unconventional job search strategies 2/n:

Search ATS instead of LinkedIn, Google - site:https://t.co/T3aOFaVd6n "Product Manager" AND ("Remote, India" OR "Anywhere")
or
site:https://t.co/E9mQeGGbJB "Data Analyst" AND ("Remote, India" OR "Anywhere")

You'll find thousands of jobs that never trend on LinkedIn.

[Vijay Chandola - Career Tips @thinksageIN]

Unconventional job search strategies 1/n:

Record a 90-second introduction video. Don't make a generic video.

Answer only 3 questions:
Who are you?
What problems do you solve?
Why this company?

Upload it as an unlisted YouTube video and send the link in your cold outreach, and see your response rate double.

[James Clear @JamesClear]

Simple mindset shifts:

– I'm not hurt, I'm healing.

– I'm not losing, I'm learning.

– I was not rejected, I was redirected.

Negative things happen. Negative mindsets make them harder.

[VV @visualizevalue]

Focus is determined by what you ignore.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

I think there are two types of optimism:

1. Passive Optimism
2. Active Optimism

Passive Optimism is exclusively about belief. The belief that things will work out. Blind faith.

Active Optimism is about belief that begets action. The belief that things will work out, and the action to make sure they do. Earned faith.

Passive Optimism fails for the same reason Pessimism does. Because it doesn’t move. The passive optimist does nothing because he thinks he doesn’t have to.

And the reality is that Passive Optimism can often masquerade as patience, faith, or even wisdom. It’s the career path that will sort itself out. It’s the relationship struggle that will surely disappear with time. It’s the health issue that will eventually go away.

Belief is great. Faith is great. But without appropriate action, they are a recipe for long-term disappointment.

A mentor once told me this:

Always assume things will work out, then do the work to make it true.

That combination creates a quiet confidence that allows you to tolerate uncertainty better than anything else.

It’s a mindset of Active Optimism. Belief and action.

[Chandan R Honavar @chandanhonavar]

Take a slow sip. That’s 5-10 seconds where nobody expects you to talk.

Your brain uses that time to build an answer instead of grabbing the first one it finds.

To them, it looks calm. To you, it’s thinking time.

[Chandan R Honavar @chandanhonavar]

The simplest interview trick I know sounds almost too stupid to work.

Keep a glass of water next to you. That’s it.

But it saved me in a way I didn’t understand until I actually tried it.

[Chandan R Honavar @chandanhonavar]

And that first answer is a cold reaction, not a well-framed response.

You know the real answer. You just didn’t give your brain the two seconds it needed to reach it.

This is where the water comes in.

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

When things go wrong, a Stoic...

...writes the past off as out of their control
...focuses on their response
...sees it as an opportunity to practice virtue
...'Blames themselves or no one'

[Chandan R Honavar @chandanhonavar]

Allow a little bit of grace to yourself to be a goofball, and you’ll be happier.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Life advice nobody told you: Fear feeds on inaction. The longer you wait to act, the stronger your fear becomes. When you take action, you starve fear of the oxygen it needs to survive. The answer is found in the action.

[• @WordsCocoon]

nobody cares about your story until you win. so, win.

[Ryan Holiday @RyanHoliday]

Trust your gut. Do your duty.
Maybe it will work out. Maybe it won't.
The hero does it anyway.

[Chandan R Honavar @chandanhonavar]

@RyanHoliday Do not anchor yourself in outcomes you cannot control.

[Vijay Chandola - Career Tips @thinksageIN]

Most people prepare answers for interviews.

Instead, paste the JD into ChatGPT and ask: "What would a hiring manager expect a strong candidate to know before joining this role?"

Now prepare those topics. You'll sound like someone ready to do the job, not just pass the interview.

[Vijay Chandola - Career Tips @thinksageIN]

Paste your resume into Claude and ask: "What are the 5 strongest stories in this resume that demonstrate leadership, ownership, and problem-solving?"

Turn those into interview stories.

Most candidates have good examples. They just don't know which ones to use.

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Nobody is thinking about you. Go do the damn thing.

[Daily Stoic @dailystoic]

You can go around in this life looking out for every insult and snide comment.

You can hang onto every time you’ve been wronged and investigate every case of possible bad faith.

Or you can tune it out, be a little deaf to it and let things go.