📣 Curious Quote from the Author
“From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.”
“The key to human development is building on who you already are”
“Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) × Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)”
“When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists. So, a revision to the "You-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be" maxim might be more accurate: You cannot be anything you want to be—but you can be a lot more of who you already are.”
“The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.”
“You cannot be anything you want to be — but you can be a lot more of who you already are.”
“It appears that the epidemic of active disengagement we see in workplaces every day could be a curable disease…if we can help the people around us develop their strengths.”
“What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.”
“Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.”
“At its fundamentally flawed core, the aim of almost any learning program is to help us become who we are not.”
“Building your talents into real strengths also requires practice and hard work, much like it does to build physical strengths.”
“We were tired of living in a world that revolved around fixing our weaknesses. Society’s relentless focus on people’s shortcomings had turned into a global obsession. What’s more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth when they invest energy in developing their strengths instead of correcting their deficiencies.”
“You cannot be anything you want to be—but you can be a lot more of who you already are.”
📚 Cognition of the Book’s Big Idea:
Overcoming our shortcomings and combating our imperfections is a concept that is overemphasized in both our work culture and society at large. In contrast, this book presents the idea that each person has unique intrinsic strengths that can be developed in order to reach their greatest potential.
Seek out other people's strengths.
The next time you're annoyed with a coworker for having an apparently random attitude to life, work, or projects, attempt to figure out what strength they might have. Deeper understanding and the development of a more fruitful working relationship will result from this.
🛠️Fixing the Tech Industry
We focus a lot on our inadequacies. They are very personal and very real to us, so it makes sense we want to focus on them.
But I’m here to tell you that focusing on your strength will do a lot more for your psyche than trying to better your weaknesses. The confidence boost alone while trying to maximize your strengths will give you the motivation to do extraordinary things with your life.
All you have to do, is leap.
🤝Collaborate with others with this Social Media Prompt:
What are some strengths you are lucky to have?
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