The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success | Marcus Buckingham

The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success | Marcus Buckingham | Guide to personal assessment?

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	The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success Marcus Buckingham Thomas Nelson, 2008 - 112 pages average customer review:based on 68 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

An Experience to Revolutionize Your Life from Marcus Buckingham - the World's Leading Expert on Career Success!

Want to know what you are supposed to do with your life? The Truth About You is an experience to unlock life's toughest questions. The process this revolutionary toolkit teaches will create higher satisfaction and performance in life and work. This cutting-edge product includes:

Enhanced DVD. A high-energy film reveals how and why you must discover and prioritize your strengths and includes access to a wealth of downloadable resources, including five bonus Strength Tip videos.

Interactive Book. With insightful exercises and tried-and-true life wisdom no one else will tell you, the book takes you to the location of your most powerful and unchanging talents.

ReMemo Pad. Designed for a life on-the-go, the ReMemo Pad becomes your companion to complete the task of revealing your strengths using your everyday experiences.

Perfect for high school and college students, young professionals, and people simply wanting to revitalize their career, The Truth About You helps you develop the kind of clarity and passion that drives a successful and satisfying future. Marcus Buckingham will help you discover the real truth, the truth about you . . . it will be your secret to success.

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More of the same, but still great

I bean reading Marcus Buckingham in "Now, Discover Your Strengths," then read "Go Put Your Strengths to Work" and "StrengthsFinder 2.0". I then ran a bible study with teens at our church having each of them do the StrengtheFinder, which went somewhat well for all of them, and followed it with the video series "Trombone Player Wanted."

While Trombone Player Wanted begins the process of beginning to live your strengths, there hasn't been an actual walk through that makes it pretty easy to take Marcus' ideas and make them a reality in my life.

This book has a DVD discussing strengths and finding your potential outside the "norm" or society, your boss, parents, teachers, whoever else is exerting pressure on how you should live. Then the book walks you through now to discover what you really do enjoy doing, and has you write those down in a small journal/flip-book provided. Then focus on some of the things which aren't your gifts.

If you've read earlier books by Marcus Buckingham, and applied them to your life successfully, this book won't be very useful to you. Even if you have read the books and not put all the practices to work, the book itself won't be incredibly different. It's more a work that takes "Go, Put Your Strengths to Work" and "Trombone Player Wanted" together into a short book that you can go through within a day or two and begin using right away.

If you haven't read Marcus Buckingham before, or are looking for other ways to put his teachings into practice, this book will be a great help.

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Guide to personal assessment?

Haven't yet watched the video, but have perused the book. It seems to be pretty easily understandable (probably slightly more so with watching the included 20-minute DVD video). The gist of the book is an emphasis on "know thy self and what makes thee tick (or get ticked off)."

Basically, it's a guide to figuring out what you do and don't like in jobs and careers. It helps you figure out what bugs you, what you enjoy, what your strengths are (theoretically, not just "what you're good at").

While I haven't yet gone through any of the assessment it seems like an interesting tool. It also comes with a ReMemo pad where you can write down the things you enjoy doing each day and the things you loathe doing each day. Good for figuring out your strengths (things that make you feel stronger and energized) and weaknesses (things that take the most out of you and make you feel weaker or less energized after doing them).

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Motivational

The Truth About You doesn't truly contain any big "secrets" per se, but does present helpful information in a format that will likely motivate most readers to pursue success in their own lives. The CD and the format of the book make it easy to approach and read in short sittings. I could see this book being very helpful to young adults or people considering life changes at any stage.

Truth of you needs some truth of Scripture

This is one of the most unique interactive books I've seen--ever. Thomas Nelson and Marcus Buckingham have come together to create a package for the generation that is searching for more...

...you'll find some of it in here.

"The Truth About You" is designed to give you focus and purpose. You begin by watching a 20 minute DVD that comes with enhanced features, including Strength Tip videos.

Then comes the reading--110 pages to discover what makes you unique, talented, gifted, and well...YOU. Instead of taking what others believe about you and deciding on where to go or how to serve...this is time spent, just God and you.

Including in the package is a ReMemo Pad--for you to make notes, answer questions, and to remember the important details about this study; details designed to help you focus on what God has gifted you with and how you might use it for his glory and for your purpose.

Perfect for a high school graduate, a college student, or someone just seeking out more to this life than just existing, "The Truth About You" is what you choose to make it. Each part of this study is valuable; all parts used together pack the most power.

My one quibble, again, is lack of Scripture. Even if "The Truth About You" isn't intended as a Bible study--oh, the power it would pack if it WAS a Bible study!! Still, keep your Bible handy as you work through this self-examination of your gifts, talents, strengths and callings.

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