“Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness”. Marilyn Vos Savant
It is very difficult to decide whether I agree with this statement. I do believe however that it is more important to know your weaknesses than your strengths. If you realise your weaknesses you minimize the opportunity for people to optimize on those weaknesses. The most important thing is to be able manage your weaknesses. By admitting and acknowledging your weaknesses you are identifying them.
A person’s weakness is not something that can always be fixed or eliminated, but it can be managed. By emphasizing you strengths you are minimizing the threat of your weaknesses.
Your strengths is something that already differentiates you from the pack, it makes you different and in some cases even better that other. It can become a weakness when these strengths are ego-driven and you think you are invincible. My greatest strength is my passion and drive, but this has also been my greatest weakness in many occasions. This passion and drive is perceived as arrogance and ignorance by some.
"To excel means to reach beyond the best you have ever given because doing so matters to you personally, for its own sake. It means to run your own race—as an individual, team, or organization. To excel is to know your greatest strengths and passions, and to emphasize them while honestly admitting and managing your weaknesses." Robert Cooper
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Feelings FOLLOW Behaviour
Does it?Should it?
When one thinks about this statement, it just does not sound right.Can you control your behaviour? Can you control your feelings?
You can control your behaviour, but you cannot control your feelings, you can only suppress it.I both agree and do not agree with this statement. When you do behave in a certain manner, your behaviour has some consequences and you have feelings about those consequences. Helping an old lady across the street makes one feel proud, hitting someone in the face in the midst of a catfight makes leads to the feeling of shame.(for those of us with a conscience anyway!)
That behaviour was triggered by some emotion or feeling. Those feelings or emotions made you act or behave in a certain manner. Before you helped the old lady across the street you felt concerned and sorry for her. Before you hit the girl you felt angry and enraged and wanted to scratch her eyes out.
This leads me to believe that a more accurate statement would be: Feelings/emotions leads to behavoir/actions which are again followed by feelings/emotions.
"If feelings follow behaviour, they cannot be the causes of behaviour, since causes must precede their effects." James D.Laird
When one thinks about this statement, it just does not sound right.Can you control your behaviour? Can you control your feelings?
You can control your behaviour, but you cannot control your feelings, you can only suppress it.I both agree and do not agree with this statement. When you do behave in a certain manner, your behaviour has some consequences and you have feelings about those consequences. Helping an old lady across the street makes one feel proud, hitting someone in the face in the midst of a catfight makes leads to the feeling of shame.(for those of us with a conscience anyway!)
That behaviour was triggered by some emotion or feeling. Those feelings or emotions made you act or behave in a certain manner. Before you helped the old lady across the street you felt concerned and sorry for her. Before you hit the girl you felt angry and enraged and wanted to scratch her eyes out.
This leads me to believe that a more accurate statement would be: Feelings/emotions leads to behavoir/actions which are again followed by feelings/emotions.
"If feelings follow behaviour, they cannot be the causes of behaviour, since causes must precede their effects." James D.Laird
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