I have heard much of the book Now Discover Your Strength, and upon hearing that we would be watching a clip by the author of said book, I greatly looked forward to it. When we started watching the video of Marcus Buckingham speaking about the concept of strengths, what struck me was that this isn’t at all what I envisioned the author of Now Discover Your Strengths to look like. I envisioned an older business suit, rather than a young, tall, stylish mind. Following this mild surprise I greatly enjoyed listening to Marcus speak about the problems that this nation faces when it comes to strengths.
His brilliant, main central idea of strengths and weaknesses is: “Build on [your] strengths and manage around [your] weaknesses.” He made some fascinating points that hold very true to our current studies of today: when we want to learn about health, we study disease. When we want to study great marriages, we study divorce. The idea is that when we want to figure out the good, we tend to look at the bad. Following this and quoting Marcus, “you only learn about excellence form studying excellence,” how true and yet how seemingly unknown.
Marcus remarks that we, as a nation and even world need to move from remedial one to strengths based one. Only 12% of the people polled in 2007 claimed they play to their strengths. Towards the end of the video clip that we watched, Marcus concluded with three myths that will help you change for your strengths. Myth 1: As you grow, your personality changes. Truth: values may change, self-awareness may change, but your dominant personality will never change. Myth 2: You grow most where you are weak. Truth: you’ll grow most where you are already strong. Myth 3: A great team member puts his strengths aside and does whatever it takes to help the team. Truth: a great team member volunteers his strength to the team most of the time.
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