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…your strengths are more than merely what you’re good at.
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081 |
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You may feel a twinge of fear, but, unprompted, you put yourself in situations where you will have to perform [your instinctual strengths].
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081 |
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Your strengths are those activities that make you feel strong.
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085 |
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Very few of us maintain a strong appetite for an activity in which we clearly have no ability.
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087 |
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…if your strengths are those activities that make you feel strong, then the person best qualified to identify them… is you.
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088 |
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…to identify your own strengths, pay close attention to how specific activities make you feel. Your feelings reveal your strengths.
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090 |
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…don’t move yourself into a role that is close to but not actually in your strengths zone, no matter how powerful your urge to do so. It will soon frustrate you.
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124 |
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One of the best ways to make your strengths central to your role is to generate new ideas around it, and then take it upon yourself to share these ideas with your colleagues.
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145 |
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…most of us, when you look closely, have a combination of strengths and weaknesses that is not entirely predictable.
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The best reason to take a job is always that the activities of the job itself intrigue you and strengthen you.
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