i love companies who want to empower their employees. as an org psy hon graduate, this (somehow) naturally excites me. but i have learnt in all my years of working, that instead of leveraging your strengths, one is constantly being told, "fix this..."; "work on that"
can i tell you something crazy? we are all good at something. and not just one thing, but a multitude of things. that's actually what makes us different and in fact, one of a kind.
none of us are the same in what we can offer each other and the world. frank sinatra gave us music. clarke gable gave us movies. and tony robbins gave us cheesy motivational videos (for some reason those 3 people were the first on my mind). i look at the people i surround myself with, and they are all the most INCREDIBLE people i could have ever asked for. it feels borderline unfair really. but i will bet you that 80% of them feel that they are short on certain skills. that, "only if they studied XYZ would they be better"
can i tell you a secret? we are all actually BRILLIANT! yes BRILLIANT! capitalised and everything.
a friend of mine gave me this book called "now, discover your strengths" by Marcus Buckingham (it has small letters on the cover of the book as well). and reading through it, i started to actually realise that our focuses are completely misdirected. society says to focus on the negative instead of the positive. and we do the same with our own lives (my one doesn't have this very ostentatious cover....but whatever).
anyways, you read this book, right. and we all think we are rockstars. we are not. not by the longest shot. but we are all unique. and once we know and understand what makes us unique. and use that to our advantage, well then the world is more than just an oyster to us.
check out the book. do the test. it was a starting point of me going "oooh, now it makes sense..."
there's a summary here
but hey, imjussayin
R
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