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Discover Your Strengths For Success
Posted on September 5th, 2010 3 comments
Discover Your Strengths For Success:
The Road Map……..“To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.” —Baruch Spinoza
Most of us have a poor sense of our talents and strengths. Throughout our education and careers, there is a lot of attention paid to our weaknesses. We are acutely aware of our faults and deficits, our so-called “opportunities for development.”
Parents, teachers and managers are all experts in spotting deficits. In fact, most parents, teachers and managers consider it their responsibility to point out flaws and try to help us correct them.
We have become experts in our own weaknesses and spend our lives trying to repair our flaws, while our strengths lie dormant and neglected. The research, however, is clear: we grow and develop by putting emphasis on our strengths, rather than trying to correct our deficits.
Most people don’t concern themselves with identifying their talents and strengths. Instead, they choose to study their weaknesses. A Gallup poll investigated this phenomenon by asking Americans, French, British, Canadian, Japanese and Chinese people of all ages and backgrounds the question: “Which do you think will help you improve the most: knowing your strengths or knowing your weaknesses?”
Have you ever noticed how some folks will argue their weaknesses? You can’t pay them a compliment at all.
Action Plan….
Focus on the strong talents you have.
Learn to take a compliment.
3 responses to “Discover Your Strengths For Success”
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This is so true. and it goes for managers as well, who would be better off spending 90% of their time with their superstars helping them to achieve a little bit more than with spending time to help the marginal people to work up to par.
We all need to stick with our strengths and out-source what we are weak at…
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Hi Lynn,
I think this lesson and this idea was one of the turning points in my becoming an entrepreneur – going with my strengths, rather than following those dreadful HR review forms which focus on our weaknesses. Get a team to fill in for your weaknesses. Can you imagine if Mozart had been told to stop all that composing and go work on your spelling where we would be today? The poorer indeed!
Happy Dating and Relationships,
April Braswell
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Excellent points!
I immediately think of the Grammy award winning songwriter Diane Warren, who’s written dozens upon dozens of hit songs for artists ranging from Celine Dion to KISS to Heart.
Had she worked on her weaknesses (stage presence & singing) and not focused exclusively on her strength–writing songs–she’d likely be a struggling live performer instead of being one of the most accomplished, wealthiest, in-demand songwriters in history.
Michael
The Success Secrets
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Rob Northrup September 6th, 2010 at 18:23