Now, Discover Your Strengths

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Now, Discover Your Strengths written by Marcus Buckingham & Donald o. Clifton is a powerful book if you still don’t know what your strengths are. This book is about developing your unique talents and strengths and those of the people you manage.

Who does not want to discover his own strengths and then manage his life and work based on those strengths?

If you are in the business or an employee, by discovering what your strengths are, you can make a huge difference and become very successful in your chosen field.

What will You Learn From This Book?

In a society where we are obsessed with finding the faults in us and in all other people surrounding us, this book challenges us to discover our strengths.

This book is must read for anyone committed to being an effective supervisor or anyone committed to his own personal growth.

The Gallup Organization has created a program to help readers identify their natural talents and build them into strengths.

Chapter 1 : Strong Lives

Based upon open-ended interviews and psychological profiles of more than two million “excellent performers” the authors have discovered that these people do have weaknesses and strengths but they have learned to maximize their strengths and focus on them.

In this book the authors have given us many real life examples of how many well known people despite having weakness, have become successful because they concentrated more on their strengths.

Chapter 2 : Strengths Building

when you observe a great personal strength in someone (for example public speaker), you are actually witnessing a mix of that person’s skills and talents. A strength is just a development of these two elements.

What is a Strength?

A strengths is consistency near perfect performance in an activity. The book’s core theme is that instead of fixing up your weaknesses, you should find your strengths and develop them. Because Its your strengths that make you a unique person.

Chapter 3 : Strengths Finder

This chapter is the most useful chapter in this book. The authors encourage us to do an online strengths finder exam which will identify and clarify your top five strengths.

You can take this test online using a code provided in this book.

Otherwise you can clearly identify your strengths just by reading this book and analyzing a big list of strengths written in this book and asking yourself honestly if you have those natural talents.

Chapter 4 : The Thirty Four Themes of Strengths finder

There are two ways to find in which areas of life you are good at.

1. In this area you are able to achieve good results consistently ( whether in speech, playing some game, or being able to become a networker).

2. It’s an activity you enjoy doing.

Here are some of the examples of strengths that you may find in yourself

Adaptability

Achiever

Arranger

Self-belief

Communication

Discipline

Focus

Futuristic

Learner

Maximizer

Positivity

Responsibility

Final Thoughts On This Book

 
This book provides a list of 34 strengths. In the book you can find the descriptions of each individual strength, thus you may easily and quickly figure out if you possess that strength or not.

When doing self-evolution, It may be tough to figure out that we are not strong in many of the strengths listed in this book but we must honestly admit that and concentrate on finding our true strengths that make us a unique person.

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Parvinder

After finishing her study in computer science in 2005, she chooses to work in the economic - financial sector (as an accountant) to take a closer look on economic reality. Now she works as a full time blogger, writer and editor on the subject of personal finance.

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