The ObservatoryIdentifying your strengths
Find the pattern in three times you succeeded at something, and see which ability actually carried you — then use it this week.
How it works
- Look in what has workedList
- Find the patternList
- Use one, for realChooseWrite
We most often see clearly what we are bad at and vaguely what we are good at. Your strengths are hidden in what you have already succeeded at — we start there, in concrete memories, not in self-image.
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Why does it work?
Identifying and using one's signature strengths in new ways is one of the more studied positive-psychology exercises. Source: Seligman et al., American Psychologist (2005).
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