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In society and education, we spend much time trying to identify and remediate weaknesses
Strengths are:
1. mental power, force, or vigor. 2. moral power, firmness, or courage.
(dictionary.com)
exertion or endurance
(merriam-webster.com)
This based on the idea that: You have a group of talents within you. Your greatest talents hold the key to high achievement, success, and progress at levels of personal excellence.
Becoming aware of your talents builds confidence and provides a basis for achievement.
Learning how to develop and apply strengths will improve your levels of achievement. Each of your talents can be applied in many areas including relationships, learning, academics, leadership, service, and careers. As you develop and apply strengths, your achievements will increase and you will experience greater and more frequent successes.
I was wrong !
Spent the first part of his career studying, and helping students focus on, weaknesses, in order to help them overcome them. Then came to understand that students have a greater chance of success, and go further, by discovering and using strengths. Together with Donald Clifton, they determined that top achievers build academic and personal lives, and careers, on strengths and they set out to study this. To Produce excellence, you must study excellence
The Strengths-Based Approach: Develop talents in to strengths, and apply those strengths, while managing weaknesses
productively applied
do something! (P. 6)
Your talents empower you. They make it possible for you to move to higher levels of excellence, and fulfill your potential (Clifton and
Anderson, 2002, P. 6)
Practice and hard work are necessary, just as if you were developing physical strength. (P.19) Talent x Investment = Strength
(P. 20)
The best part of focusing on strengths is that you are focusing on who you already are!
The seeds of your personal greatness your talents are already in you. Therefore, your Strengths Quest is really a quest to discover, develop and apply who you truly are.
(Clifton and Anderson, 2002, P. 14)
And lastly The answer to a very important question If a theme is not among my Top 5, does it mean it is a weakness??
The answer is NO it just means that other themes are more dominant!
Resources:
Buckingham, Marcus and Clifton, Donald O. (2001). Now, Discover Your Strengths. Washington, DC: The Gallup Organization. Rath, Tom. (2007). Strengths Finder 2.0. Washington, DC: The Gallup Organization. Clifton, Donald O. and Nelson, Paula. (1992). Soar With Your Strengths. New York, NY: The Dell Publishing Group.