"Back when you were young, your strengths were to be trusted. You might not have had a name for them - you might not even have labeled them strengths - but when you were a child, you listened to them. Then somehow, sometime between then and now, your childhood clarity faded and you started listening to the world around you more closely than you did to yourself. You had to get into college and find a job, and with the job came the urgent demands of the customers, colleagues and bosses. The truth you now face is that these people aren't very concerned with your strengths; they're much more interested in what you can get done for them." "Learn how to make them relevant. Learn how to put them to work."

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