Capitalize on Your Strengths

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“The crux of leadership development that works is self-directed learning: intentionally developing or strengthening an aspect of who you are or who you want to be, or both.” Primal Leadership by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKee (Harvard Business School Press)

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Capitalize on Your Strengths

"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer" --Albert Einstein

Malcolm Gladwell suggests that 10,000 hours is the period of time required to reach critical mass in terms of expertise and insight. The main point is that hard work, not just natural abilities or high IQ, often determine a person's ultimate success and level of expertise in a particular domain.

Numerous studies have shown that expertise and creativity emerge in relation to a particular domain of knowledge or activity. For example, we might say that a particular person is gifted as an artist, a musician, a writer, or leader. Human beings exhibit an astonishing array of strengths and abilities. To become really good or even "gifted" requires that we spend considerable time developing our innate talents, strengths and abilities.

You may discover your signature talents by using tools to assess your multiple intelligences. Once you have taken some assessments, you will become more clear of those signature talents.

The interesting thing about your unique personal profile is that it represents two things: areas of strength and areas for development. How strong you are in a particular intelligence is a measure of your abilities and how much time you have spent in that domain of knowledge.

It is up to you to decide where to put your time and energy. It is important to look at the combination of strengths that you possess. The top two or more strengths create composites that map to other macro qualities such as jobs and professions.

Source: Eric W. Stein: Fostering Creativity in Self and the Organization: Your Professional Edge