What's the secret to your exponential growth in your career and life!
Posted on August 26, 2020 by Kharrthikheyan T N, One of Thousands of Leadership Coaches on Noomii.
This article presents a radical approach rooted in positive psychology and neuroscience to help you achieve exponential growth in your lives.
Here is a Challenge – What if we asked, “What is right with people rather than fixing what’s wrong with them?”
When it comes to conventional approach to development, it is common to focus on the area of weakness. It is because of the belief that
(1) Every person can be competent in anything
(2) A person’s maximum opportunity for growth lies in the areas of weakness.
Contrary to the above approach is the strengths approach grounded in positive psychology, which believes that
(1) Each person’s talents are enduing and unique
(2) Each person’s greatest room for growth lies in the areas of greatest strength.
According to Strengths approach, a ‘strength’ is a combination of your talent, knowledge and skills.
A strength is the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance in a given activity. Strengths grow from your natural talents.
Talents are naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behaviour. From a neuroscience point of view, “Talent is what you are naturally wired for”.
Some clues to identify your natural talents:
(1) Yearning: During your childhood days, you were good at something. What were those?
(2) Rapid Learning: While others may take several days to learn, what have been those which you have learnt in a very short span of time?
(3) Satisfaction: When you do certain things, you feel happy and satisfied.
To identify your natural talents in a more scientific way, you can use GallUp Strengthsfinder. A personalized report helps you identify talents which you can build into strengths and use it in your life everyday.
According to GallUp, people who leverage strengths at work are 6 times more likely to do what they do best everyday, 6 times more likely to do be engaged in their jobs and 3 times more likely to have an excellent quality of life. If you craft your life and career around your strengths, your growth would be exponential. Do you want to achieve exponential growth in your career and life? What are you waiting for!
