First, he became aware of it. Many of us don't seem able to take even this step. Second, and most significant, he chose not to focus on reinforcing its weaker threads. Instead, he did the exact opposite: He identified its strongest threads, wove in education and experience, and built them into the dominating strengths we see today.
Donald O. CliftonKnowledge consists of the facts and lessons learned.
Skills are the steps of an activity.
These three-talents, knowledge, and skills-combine to create your strengths.
To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.
Donald O. CliftonTalents are your naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior.
Donald O. CliftonSkills are so enticingly helpful that they obscure their two flaws. The first flaw is that while skills will help you perform, they will not help you excel.
Donald O. CliftonThus, the lesson we should draw from these people is not that each person's talents are infinitely malleable or that they can be anything they want to be if they just apply themselves. Rather, the lesson is that talents, like intelligence, are value neutral. If you want to change your life so that others may benefit from your strengths, then change your values. Don't waste time trying to change your talents.
Donald O. CliftonTalent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.
Donald O. CliftonRather, your smartness and your effectiveness depend on how well you capitalize on your strongest connections.
Donald O. CliftonThe boundaries of human experience are finite (if you haven't experienced emotions such as pain or fear or shame, you are either a sociopath or an alien), but within these boundaries there is significant range and diversity.
Donald O. CliftonIn Martin Seligman's words, 'Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part about repair and damage. But the other side is unbaked. The side of strengths, the side of what we are good at, the side…of what makes life worth living.
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