The Truth About You is Marcus Buckingham’s recent book. Widely known for Now, Discover Your Strengths and The One Thing You Need to Know, Buckingham continues his mission to help people discover their strengths, develop them, and get them to work in their careers and lives.
TTAY is a different kind of book. Short, very easy to read, interactive, gives you some homework (which I haven’t done yet), includes a 22 min. DVD film (mostly speaking by him with a storyline in the background), and last of all, a ReMemo note pad to help you log the activities you love or hate – yes it’s a thick book.
I believe this book is what’s needed if Buckingham’s dream of building a strengths revolution will catch on the main stream of our culture. His other books mainly hit a corporate crowd. This book seems to be aimed at anyone, but particularly a young adult starting his/her career, or even a college student just thinking about where to focus their lives vocationally.
Unlike his other books, this doesn’t require long reading or online assessments. It’s engaging – i.e. you get to discover your strengths by thinking about what you love or loath in any activity you’re doing (that’s what the ReMemo Pad is for). He then challenges you to take that information and figure out who you are – or what your strengths are – so every week for the rest of your life you can grow in areas of where you’re strong rather than keep trying to fix your weaknesses.
Although it seems like I've heard lots his same phrases before, I like this book for one main reason - it brought the whole strengths philosophy into a short and easy to remember format.
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