A strength is an unique inner ability - and it's worth pursuing to excess. Practice makes perfect. Stay on your strength's path and you will experience the most possible success.Write about it. Talk about it. Enjoy it.So how can you identify a unique ability vs a skill set or even a weakness?
Incompetence – regardless of time or effort, results are poor
Competence – good enough, but there is competition out there doing it much better
Excellence – superior skill but no passion
Unique ability – superior skill and passion
A strength has some identifiable characteristics:
1. Listen for your yearnings.
Know that the yearnings of others may influence you - but they are not YOUR yearnings. Separate the trappings of the success of something vs the actual desire to do it.
2. Watch for satisfaction.
Note those experiences where the emotional and psychic rewards are great.
What has intrinsic motivation?
What makes you feel good?
Competencies that are not satisfying to you are short lived.
3. Rapid learning.
Does it feel like you've always known it?
Are you catching on quickly?
If you're a natural, you likely want to jump right into doing it.
4. Catch glimpses of excellence.
If you study success, you'll find frequent moments of potential before the eventual success.
5. Total performance of excellence.
Does excellence happen every time or is it a fluke?
Do you find yourself enjoying and performing well every time?
Perhaps there is no success and failure out there, but really just people in situations where expectations are out of alignment with their strengths.
Play to your strengths and to the strengths of others - do not waste time trying to change them.
1. Listen for your yearnings.
- What pulls you?
- What are you instinctively attracted to?
- What has you thinking "I'd like to do that".
Know that the yearnings of others may influence you - but they are not YOUR yearnings. Separate the trappings of the success of something vs the actual desire to do it.
2. Watch for satisfaction.
Note those experiences where the emotional and psychic rewards are great.
What has intrinsic motivation?
What makes you feel good?
Competencies that are not satisfying to you are short lived.
3. Rapid learning.
Does it feel like you've always known it?
Are you catching on quickly?
If you're a natural, you likely want to jump right into doing it.
4. Catch glimpses of excellence.
If you study success, you'll find frequent moments of potential before the eventual success.
5. Total performance of excellence.
Does excellence happen every time or is it a fluke?
Do you find yourself enjoying and performing well every time?
Perhaps there is no success and failure out there, but really just people in situations where expectations are out of alignment with their strengths.
Play to your strengths and to the strengths of others - do not waste time trying to change them.
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