Comments on: Go Put Your Strengths to Work by Marcus Buckingham

By: Robert A.

Robert A. — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:36:33 +0000

I guess those reasons can come from the external factors as well, it can span across time, how the past experience can affect what they do now. Yet, I agree with you, that some reasons can only be found in their DNA, personality, for example. Some said, that personality of a person can be identified even when they were small, before much things influence their behaviors.

By: Evan

Evan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 04:05:38 +0000

Hi Robert, I hope my blog impacts people’s lives – it’s a bit hard to know.

I guess deeper reasons are tricky. I think we all have a core to us that we are more or less in touch with. My favourite metaphor for this is a seed or acorn – it will develop to be like others of its kind (a human being) but according to the conditions and with its distinct look. I guess this doesn’t really deal with deeper reasons though.

By: Robert A.

Robert A. — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:59:02 +0000

@Nicole, thanks for sharing your strength here! Communication, planning, and execution, seems that it’s a wide range of strength. It’s quite a well-balanced strength… keep working at them, I mean putting them to work!

@Arswino, great, you should get the book and read it.

@Evan, thanks for sharing your strength, i’m kind of having the tendency of wanting to know deeper thoughts, or deeper reasons of why people behave in certain way. I guess we have some similarity here =) yup I can see how your blog makes big impact in people’s lives!
Keep it up!

Thanks,
Robert

By: Evan

Evan — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 23:04:59 +0000

Hi Robert,

I love Marcus Buckingham’s stuff.

My strength: getting to the guts of something – a person’s core issue or the main ideas of a topic. Hopefully by blogging about health with a slant to self-development I am using my strength in a way that benefits others!

By: Arswino

Arswino — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 10:36:35 +0000

Hi Robert. Many people still don’t know what strengths or weaknesses they have. I think it is truly a great book. I am also agree with the book said that we have to work on our strength rather than our weaknesses.
Thanks for sharing, Robert. I’ll record this book to my ‘a must have book’ list.

By: Nicole Price

Nicole Price — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 15:18:18 +0000

I am strong on communication, planning and execution. I am by nature an instinctual responder to situations. This is also perhaps a strength. I strongly believe in self growth as well as organic growth of everything in life. My needs are by and large taken care of and I am not a chaser of wants. Over all, I think that I come out reasonably on top in this analysis!