Book Review of “The Truth About You” by Marcus Buckingham
This book affirms a couple of cliche’s that I love to use: 1. Be a Jack of All trades but a Master of One. I believe we really can only do a couple of things well. 2. If you aim for nothing in particular that is probably what you will hit. I believe we do need to drill into our strengths and magnify them. Simply stated I love this book. (It has three very cool things: 1. an accompanying CD/DVD which provides rich multimedia content 2. It has a neat little memo pad (read the book to see what it is for) and 3. it is a short quick read!) I agree with what he says! Focus on your strength. Don’t fall into the fallacy that you can build your weak areas into strength’s. I have seen this in life. I knew someone who was great at pouring concrete and cutting down trees. But put him inside to put up trim or any detail work and it just wouldn’t work. Learn what your strength’s are and maximize your potential in that area.
Take his challenge and start building your job (I agree with the author, there is no perfect job) into your strengths. I doubt that your boss will even notice until they figure out how indispensable you have become to them. Life is way to short to just endure.
