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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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The Truth About You  2008-12-01
I have to say that I approached this book with a bit of skepticism. I first became familiar with Marcus Buckingham at the 2007 Willow Creek Leadership Summit. Even though we were hypnotized at his command of the stage and his uncanny ability to communicate to such large audience, we could not ignore the late night infomercial sales pitch that he threw at us. While I understand the Buckingham's basic thesis of working toward your strengths, as a follower of Christ, I cannot help but to be reminded of Jesus' words spoken to Paul in 2 Corinthians chapter twelve verse nine, "My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (ESV). Paul goes onto conclude in the rest of verse nine, "I will boast all the more gladly of my weakness, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me." (ESV). So if, the power of God is perfected in weakness and if "God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong" (1 Cor 1:27b) where does The Truth About You fit when the truth about me is that I am a sinner in need of a savior, not the "best advice I will ever get."
Buckingham's advice is five-fold: "(1) Performance is always the point, (2) Your strengths aren't what your good at, and your weaknesses aren't what you're bad at, (3) When it come to the job, the `What' always trumps the `Why' and the `Who,' (4) You'll never find the perfect job, and (5) You'll never turn your weaknesses into strengths" (22).
If performance is always the point, then we have all failed miserably. If my strengths are not what I am good at, then why am I good at what I love to do? If the what trumps the why and the who, then having purpose (why) and other people (who) no longer matter. I may never find the "perfect" job, but . . . he is right on target with this one. If my weaknesses can never be turned into strengths . . . see above.
This is only the beginning of the lies Buckingham wants to tell in his version of the "truth about you." His first of "Five things that sound right but aren't" should clue you in on Marcus' version of other people are objects to be exploited so that I can get to the top mentality. That is, we should not treat people like we want to be treated (101). With this rejection of simple common courtesy reflects the self-centered, cutthroat, with no awareness of God perspective that this book is written from.
To embrace the teachings of this book is to reject the reality that you are a creature of God. God, however, stands in the way of any self-absorbed plans. For too many today, God seems like an absentee landlord, and a foolish one at that--easily betrayed and cheated. The truth about you is that you are God's wonderfully and uniquely made being that stands as the apple of his eye. When you acknowledge the truth that you are in utter dependence on Him, even for the very air you breathe, then His strength can be perfected in your weakness.
More of the same, but still great  2008-12-01
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.
Motivational 2008-11-26
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.
Guide to personal assessment? 2008-11-26
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).
more than words on a page 2008-11-26
Marcus Buckingham does it again.
From "First" to "Go" to "Now", he returns with another insightful work in the area of personal/professional development and leadership with his latest strength-based, positive psychology book, The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success.
I have read almost everything written on strength-based psychology and development, and this is by far the best. With a DVD, 110 pages full of helpful words and stories, and a ReMemo pad, The Truth About You is more like a Buckingham conference that fits in a bag.
Besides having great things to say, this "book" is beautifully packaged (thank you Dot&Cross). From the silver cover to the blue packaging to the words and images and ideas it contains, The Truth About You is an interactive experience that can actually make a difference in the way you work and play and rest and everything else that makes up life.
So go buy it now!
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