Strengths Finder 2.0 is a practical diagnostic manual. It includes a great summary of every one of the 34 potential strengths. It also includes a code for an online diagnostic to find your own strengths. This diagnostic also includes recommendations to try, as well as who to enlist for help.
Key Takeaways
Memorable Quotes
Rating: 9/10
Everything that came out of the SF2 assessment rings true. Going forward, I plan to spend much more time maximizing these strengths. I realize maximizing those strengths will make me successful. Self-awareness is key to relating in any team or social situation. Reading this book and taking the assessment will build that much-needed awareness.
Key Takeaways
- Greatness comes more from maximizing strengths than from minimizing weaknesses.
- I'm a Relator - I tend to connect people.
- I'm a Learner - I prioritize learning and process over results.
- I'm Futuristic - I love to peer beyond the present, especially with technology.
- I have Focus - I need a clear path and a clear destination.
- I'm Restorative - I enjoy solving problems.
Memorable Quotes
- From the cradle to the cubicle, we devote more time to our shortcomings than to our strengths.
- the key to human development is building on who you already are
- When we're able to put most of our energy into developing our natural talents, extraordinary room for growth exists. So, a revision to the "You-can-be-anything-you-want-to-be" maxim might be more accurate: You cannot be anything you want to be—but you can be a lot more of who you already are.
- Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling, or behaving) × Investment (time spent practicing, developing your skills, and building your knowledge base) = Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)
- The most successful people start with dominant talent—and then add skills, knowledge, and practice to the mix. When they do this, the raw talent actually serves as a multiplier.
- You cannot be anything you want to be — but you can be a lot more of who you already are.
- It appears that the epidemic of active disengagement we see in workplaces every day could be a curable disease…if we can help the people around us develop their strengths.
- What's more, we had discovered that people have several times more potential for growth, when they invest energy in developing their strenghts instead of correcting their deficiencies.
- Every human being has talents that are just waiting to be uncovered.
- Building your talents into real strengths also requires practice and hard work, much like it does to build physical strengths.
Rating: 9/10
Everything that came out of the SF2 assessment rings true. Going forward, I plan to spend much more time maximizing these strengths. I realize maximizing those strengths will make me successful. Self-awareness is key to relating in any team or social situation. Reading this book and taking the assessment will build that much-needed awareness.
