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Go Put Your Strengths to Work
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Permalink Reply by Linda Rowley on -
Go Put Your Strengths to Work was my first foray into Marcu's strengths philosophy. I read it on the 1st January 2009, sitting with the summer sun peaking over my shoulder at a Buddhist retreat. It resonated with me on such a deep level, it set the tone for the remainder of my year. Returning home from the retreat, I devoured all I could on strengths, purchasing copies of the other books and eating up the words on the page. It changed my life. Inspired, I made contact with TMBC and flew to the US (from my home town in rural Australia) later that year to be among the first independent consultants to be trained in Simply Strengths. To this day, it still inspires me, guides my work and fuels my passion for life.
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Permalink Reply by Judith Onton on -
I am starting the Go book with my team this week. I got the Trombome Player Wanted videos. I am doing it with local team and use WebEx to include one staff member in Canada. I have other team members around the world- 2 in China, 1 in Taiwan and 1 in India. Do you have any suggestions for including them in our discussions? The time difference makes it really hard for us to get together all at once.
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Permalink Reply by Val Baguios III -
In the book, it mentions that the personality of a person can both be influenced by NATURE and NURTURE (almost 50-50..)
Marcus mentioned that, indeed 40-50% is NATURE. But the remaining influence doesn't fall on NURTURE- quoting the book:"How you were raised has absolutely no impact on your personality at all."
However, further on page 58 he quoted Judith Rich Harris book stating that it is these 2 major things:
- chance
- peers
Isn't this somehow "nurture" ? Specially "peers" because peers can be the people at home and how they relate to you in a daily basis.
Then while I was thinking about this, a few paragraphs below says:
"peers in the sense that your peers are the most reliable sources of information about you and, in particular, about what your true strengths are..."
I kinda' lost my thoughts there, I thought the book was talking about the things that influence your personality and not the things that can tell you what your personality are.
Can anyone clarify this?
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