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§tèvë
 Oct 14, 07 - 11:09 PM |
The One Thing You Need to Know
The route to success is to discover what your natural talents or strengths are - and then play to them (See below) However, this is only part of the picture. Yes, you must discover your strengths - but you must also discover what you don't like doing and then stop doing it. This is not only because its not much fun doing what you don't enjoy - more importantly doing what you don't enjoy damages you and your chances of success. Successful people not only play to their strengths - they sculpt their jobs so that they can spend a disproportionate time doing what they love. Discovering what you don't like doing seems straightforward enough, but stopping doing it seems more challenging. There are four indicators that you need to stop doing what you're doing: 1. When you're bored with what you do and your interests are not engaged - change jobs 2. When you enjoy your job and are performing well but you're unfulfilled because your values aren't engaged - change jobs! 3. When your interests and your values are engaged but your strengths aren't so that you're frustrated - find a way of tweaking your job so that it plays to your strengths. If you can't, then change jobs 4. When your interests, values and strengths are engaged, but your job requires you to have a strength where you have a weakness so that you're drained - partner with someone who loves to do what you hate to do, or find an aspect of the activity that brings you strength and always keep this aspect at the top of your mind. Playing to your Strengths How do we identify what we have the potential to be the best in the world at? A piece of research by the Gallup organisation and based on interviews with 198,000 people · Those who perform the very best, do so by developing their strengths as far as they can whilst finding ways to manage their weaknesses. (This may seem obvious but generally we assume that our greatest room for growth is in our area of our greatest weakness. In fact the opposite is true. Our greatest room for growth is in the area of our greatest strength.) · A strength (ie, consistent, near perfect performance in an activity) requires certain underlying talents relevant to that strength as well as appropriate skills and knowledge. (We can of course get better at something we don't have a talent for but we won't reach consistent, near perfect performance in this activity through practice alone · We must have the underlying talents.) Strengths are made up of skills, knowledge and our natural talents - all of these are important but the most important is talent. Talents are recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour, which can be productively applied. They are innate and are what we do naturally. Examples include being competitive, curious, charming or persistent. Without underlying talent, learning a skill is a survival technique, not a path to glory. Thus, the key to building a bona fide strength is to identify your dominant talents and refine them with knowledge and skills. §tèvë |
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Ken
Oct 15th, 2007 - 10:31 AM |
Re: The One Thing You Need to Know
Thanks Steve, I discovered this at the right time overnight and gave up a job application that was the same money as before, but which would've driven me mad and ended in my quitting or getting the sack. Here's to aiming higher! |
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