Strenghts Vs Weaknesses Options

[Cosmin Lupu]

All our lives we have been educated and sometimes forced to overcome our weak points and get better at some things. There's an American dude, who's living here in Romania, old friend of mine and he aims to start a project based on career re-orientation for young people working in environments not allowing them to express their full potential, based on their real strengths and talents.

In a nutshell, his concept is based on the fact that in our society, folks are always forced to work on their weak points and in this way, they totally neglect their strong ones, ending up doing things which maybe they were not meant for, thus never achieving their full potential as human beings and of course, not being happy.

He is very fond of artists and he likes to talk to a lot of us in some of the bands here, as he thinks we are a good inspiration source for the people he aims to help.

Now, I took a test based on answering 180 questions, each of them having 20 seconds to be answered - this lead to discovering my top 5 strengths:

Cosmin's Top 5 Strengths

That doesn't mean that others not present, but these 5 are supposed to define you in a greater amount than any other of a total of 34.

I don't know how much I can believe these but, what I can tell you is that I was very honest with my answers in the test - for more insight, visit www.strengthsfinder.com

If i am correct, I remember a little movie with Steve Vai (posted here on GMC) underlining that we should work on developing our strong points not our weak ones as players and I think that now I understand what he meant and I can agree.

What do you guys think about strengths vs weaknesses?

Cosmin

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This post has been edited by Cosmin Lupu: Jun 12 2012, 10:13 AM

[Cosmin Lupu]

Ben, can I ask you what your weak spots are? In general not only as a player if I can ask, of course.

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[Ben Higgins]

Ben, can I ask you what your weak spots are? In general not only as a player if I can ask, of course.

My right elbow

My feet..

Oh, you mean in my character ?

Well, if I share a public weakness it's only fair if we all do one too. I'll start it off, though..

For me, a weakness is not being able to say when I'm unhappy about something for fear of upsetting another person. I guess you could call it people pleasing. I've been working on it a long time and I'm getting better but it's an ongoing thing

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[Cosmin Lupu]

Like Japanese people I heard about this dude who came visiting a friend of mine in Poland and he NEVER EVER complained about anything, until my friend insisted that he told him what he didn't like to do while being there. He finally admitted what he disliked

I for one have very little to no empathy towards people who are not doing their best to evolve and become the best they can. I despise lazy people and act very out front when dealing with them in real life... Some people also regard me as an arrogant person - I've been accused of that a lot of times - but hey, I get to choose who I like to talk with and who I am being friends with. If I am not being that friendly with someone I am not being arrogant.

hope I didn't scare anyone

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[Ben Higgins]

I for one have very little to no empathy towards people who are not doing their best to evolve and become the best they can.

Oh man, I am so with you on that one. People just don't want to look at themselves do they ? So, in turn, their lack of responsibility gets shifted onto the shoulders of those around them. Life is hard. We've all got our crosses to bear.. we shouldn't bear other people's crosses too because they can't be bothered.

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