Play to your Strengths

“Which is better? To ebb your weaknesses or reinforce your strengths”

When I look back at my life, I had always focused on my weaknesses. I had never paid attention to what my strengths are. Alas, I was even unaware of my strengths until recently. To a person like me, who is more worried about the weaknesses and trying to find ways to mitigate them, this session was an eye opener. This session never asked us about our weaknesses.

But it had asked more obvious and ground breaking questions like, “What your strengths are?” “How can you use your strengths to achieve your goals?” These questions look simple but the answers to them are not (at least for me). After this class, I had been thinking a lot trying to figure out what my strengths were. Fortunately, our first assignment of this class helped me to find what my real strengths are. In this assignment, I had to prepare a set of questions regarding my strengths and I had to get responses for those questions from my family, friends, colleagues etc. Based on their responses I need to prepare a portrait of myself. This exercise is called Reflected Best Self (RBS).

This exercise is one of the most important things for me. I had never done any activity like this. And, I learnt a lot about me from this. I could actually associate myself with most of the comments. It was new experience to get to know about myself from my closed ones. This portrait will help me build myself a strong character. I would also suggest this exercise to my closed ones so that they can benefit from this immensely. The key takeaway for me from this session is to focus more on your strengths than your weaknesses. In that way, at least we can be happy about something. (LOL)