This week’s lesson from my book: Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life is on “discovering your strengths.” Here are the steps I asked my students to consider: According to the Gallup survey discover your top-five signature strengths? (you will need to buy one of the Gallup books to get the code to be able to take this survey) As with all similar surveys, the Gallup is based on self-report. Yet, research shows we do not know ourselves as …
Self-Aware: A Guide for Success in Work and Life “I hadn’t really stopped to think about how my own interests and work-style would fit into my future career. I was caught up in attending recruitment sessions from Fortune 500 companies or whatever companies I thought carried prestige, with little regard for the type of work I was actually interested in… “Our first topic in Dr. Rob’s class was about self-awareness… [I discovered that] I preferred creative work, often in more …
I will always remember September 11, 2001. I will always remember receiving the call from my wife that morning, saying that a plane had hit the towers. I will always remember driving home, trying to grasp the enormity of the tragedy. I will always remember the anguish as worried about our son, Adam, who was a reporter for Reuters in Times Square and often reported from the Trade Center. I will always remember the relief when we finally heard from him at 2 …