Gallup has been researching resiliency for the past thirty years, surveying almost 200,000 people around the world. The research has also involved conducting more than two million interviews with people from diverse careers including---teachers, doctors, lawyers, salespeople, nurses, soldiers, housekeepers, pastors and corporate executives.
The results challenge the common assumptions that most of us would have:
1) success occurs in individuals lives because they grow in the areas of their strengths, rather than obsessing about and trying to repair their weaknesses. So while it may be necessary at times to focus on our weaknesses most of our attention should be focused on growing our strengths.
2) people develop their strengths by first identifying their natural talents then building skills to maximize them.
3) the keystone of high achievement and happiness is exercising your strengths rather than obsessing on your pain.
The message is to thrive. Live life to the fullest and celebrate everything you have. Look in the mirror, see you strengths and grow them! TJS
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