Soar with Your Strengths
by Donald O. Clifton and Paula Nelson
The original strengths book, before StrengthsFinder: the parable of the rabbit forced to take swimming lessons, and the argument that developing weaknesses produces mediocrity while developing strengths produces excellence. Short, persuasive and the root of a whole movement.
Read it if…
you want the strengths philosophy in its clearest early form.
Skip it if…
you want the assessment; see StrengthsFinder 2.0.
Three things you will actually use
- Fixing weaknesses yields mediocrity at best.
- Find out what you do well and do more of it.
- Manage around weaknesses rather than through them.
Do this first
List what you do well and enjoy, and spend one week doing more of it before fixing anything.
Our verdict
The root of the strengths movement.
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