Work From The Inside Out 108: Reframe Your Perspective, Change Your Reality with Harsha Boralessa
Like many young boys, Harsha Boralessa dreamed of playing professional sports and in his case, that was cricket. When he was nine, he played for one of England’s professional teams and by the time he was 19, he was playing top-level cricket at his university. While he thoroughly enjoyed cricket he knew that moving into another career would be best as he had no future in the sport. Yet, Harsha credits playing cricket with teaching him important life lessons, that he has applied to his professional career:
Self-discipline – the motivation to keep practicing, even when things are not going well.
Resilience & dealing with failure – learn to deal with pressure, no matter how good you are, and learn to handle failure but keep going.
Self-confidence – it’s very difficult to succeed if you have a negative mindset so even if you’re not feeling great, you have to almost fake it to make it.
Teamwork – learning to engage with different personalities on a team.
Gratitude – I was in the fortunate position that I was at university and was able to move into another career after cricket.
Harsha is a CFA charter holder, a chartered accountant, and a graduate of the London School of Economics. He has worked for over 15 years in Investment Banking, the “big 4” accounting firms, and Investment Management. He has also worked in the Private Equity Secondaries market and consulted on a professional learning development platform for the CFA UK Society.
Over the last few years, he has developed a passion for career & personal development and its interaction with neuroscience, in particular concepts such as mindset, reframing, visualization, and habit creation.
In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn more about Harsha’s journey:
- Harsha believes in luck and serendipity. While things might look terrible if you don’t get the job/promotion you want, he believes in staying positive to look forward and not back!
- He has recently launched a podcast focusing on career & personal development, Reframe and Reset Your Career
- Harsha is designing a neuroscience/psychology based App to assist people in identifying what is draining them and guide them to strategies and ideas which might fuel them.
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