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My strengths are apparently: critical thinking/open-mindedness, fairness/equity, curiosity, honesty/authenticity, creativity/ingenuity, love of learning, leadership, perspective/wisdom
Faith, humour, energy, purpose, hope alllll way down the list....
#next were social intelligence and appreciation of beauty and bravery and capacity for love and perseverance and prudence#anyway#according to the happiness book one should do voluntary activities aligned with ones strengths to achieve flow and increase happiness#this is where this very very very good book imo misses one important aspect of human psychology imo#because it argues that it is possible to increase happiness through activities. in the first place because we like to affect the world#but also because it allows us to achieve flow.#but then it implies that this is achievable through playing to our strengths. BUT THEN the questionnaire it links to is much closer to#principles#WHICH HITS EXACTLY ON#what is missing: self concept. the writer mentions it elsewhere. how we keep telling stories about the 'I'#and how most of those stories are negative and self-obsessed to a fault and shit#but he doesn't seem to connect this. you have to tell a story you can believe in about yourself. and they must align with these strengths#that is to say. yes. it's important to 'find out' about strengths (principles#and acknowledge them#but it's important to tell an active story about them and yourself and your RELATIONSHIP with the world#who are you. in relationship to the world. most people do this automatically. it's essential#it causes depression if one cannot tell a reasonably positive story about oneself.#my stuff#personal#a coherence...
