I've been reading bits and pieces of a book that was recommended by a couple of students in a More than a Paycheck workshop: StrengthsFinder 2.0. The author offer a twist on Seligman's formula for happiness -- a definition of a strengths that includes your investment of time as a multiplier. The formula goes like this:
Talent (a natural way of thinking, feeling or behaving)
X Investment (time spent developing your skillsand building your knowledge base)
= Strength (the ability to consistently provide near-perfect performance)
Similar to Seligman's idea of an inherited "set range" of happiness that we can each overcome to a certain extent by how we choose to live, in the StrengthsFinder way of thinking "You cannot be anything you want to be -- but you can be a lot more of who you already are." Which on my good days sounds like a very good idea.
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