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The Truth About You: Your Secret to Success | 
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| Author: Marcus Buckingham
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Category: Book
List Price: $29.99
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Rating:  55 reviews
Sales Rank: 3260
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 112
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.7 x 1.2
ISBN: 1400202264
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.1
EAN: 9781400202263
ASIN: 1400202264
Publication Date: September 30, 2008
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Product Description
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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 You've Got To Know "The Truth About You" November 21, 2008
Ben Boles (Ormond Beach, FL United States)
This is the second Marcus Buckingham book I've read, the first being "Now, Discover Your Strengths". Which is a great primer (but not necessary) for "The Truth About You".
"The Truth About You" is a very unique experience for the learner (notice I didn't say reader). You start out by watching a short video of Marcus Buckingham introducing you to the ideas of "The Truth About You" and beginning to explain the why's you learn about in the book. While he is talking another video fades in and out: a story of a boy who's realized he's bored with the trombone and feel alive when he sneaks to play the timpani drum and the story that plays out till he gets to play them while not letting the team down to do it. You also get a Rememo pad that you use during you week as you do specific task to learn what strengths you and what weakens you.
I really loved "Now, Discover Your Strengths" and have a deep sense of understanding of who I am when it comes to strengths and weaknesses because of the short but packed brilliance of "The Truth About You". The five chapters of the book really hit home some of the best knowledge you'll find on how to leverage your strengths in the work place and find ways to make sure the things that weaken, drain or bore you are taken care of in ways your company and boss will notice in a positive way.
The Five Chapters:
-Performance is always the point
-Your strengths aren't what you good at, and your weaknesses aren't what your bad at
-When it comes to your job, the "What" always trumps the "Why" and the "Who"
-You'll never find the perfect job
-You'll never turn your weaknesses into strengths
Some great nuggets I really dig out of the book:
-There is an I in team. We've been told other wise but look at championship teams and you see guys and gals who play their position well and also help out in ways to make sure plays are executed well.
-Strengths are things that strengthen and invigorate you and weaknesses are things that weaken and drain you. (That makes so much sense.) He says that you can be good at something but it still drain and bore you.
-As you grow older you become more and more of who you already are.
-There are no perfect jobs, you have to build it.
-Everyone has weakness you just have to learn how to deal with them. (Chapter 5 does such a great job of explaining how and giving great examples from the likes of Shaquille O'Neal, Tiger Woods, David Beckham and Tom Brady).
I highly recommend "The Truth About You" as much as "Now, Discover Your Strengths" changed my thinking about the work I've been called to do and how that interacts with the way I was created, this book does a great job of honing down the ideas in firm and practical ways. Your never to old or to young to change your trajectory in the work force to work in a job that you love and cannot imagine doing anything else and this book can help you get there.
A short, but valuable, read November 20, 2008
Kristen L. Fischer (nj)
What an awesome book, offering just the right message. Do his simple exercises and you'll really see things clearly. He teaches you that you can even do what you're good at and still not be satisfied--so find your strengths now for a more fulfilling career. What are your strengths, specifically? A great read and the perfect length for busy young professionals!! -[...]
 Not bad - but not that good November 20, 2008
S. L. Young (IN, United States)
It's been done before. This is every self-assess-and-fix-your-flaws book you've ever seen. The writing isn't bad, and the ideas are good, it just wasn't the new approach I was hoping to see.
 Good tool for assessing yourself in troubled times November 20, 2008
Michael Israel (Pennsylvania, United States)
As others have mentioned, this book/dvd is essentially a toolkit, a shorter version of the excellent first discover your strengths.
The troubled economy we are now facing has caused a lot of people to reevaluate their careers, even their lives. I think this toolkit provides an excellent resource for stepping back and thinking about what is really important in your life and putting yourself down the right path.
I still like the books better but will say that if used properly, this toolset will be more more actionable and impactful for most people. Well done, and worth the invetment.
Some repeated info, still great stuff November 20, 2008
J. Matt Landrum (Starkville, MS USA)
If you have read the work Marcus has done with the Gallup organization (e.g. Now Discover Your Strengths), you will find some of this book repetitive. Having said that, this package puts together some of the information in a more readable form with some interesting narratives (loved the Warren Buffett example).
The central thesis is this:
Develop your strengths. Mitigate your weaknesses, don't bust your tail trying to fix them. Don't let anyone talk you out of the last sentence.
More detail:
Based on biological/medical and psychological research, we can confidently say that each of us has a relatively common/differing set of areas where we are strong and areas where we are weak. Further, our greatest potential for improvement and development is by working on our strengths, not our weaknesses. This knowledge has incredible consequences. We are energized and perform well when we are doing things that play to our strengths. We are drained (made weaker) when we are engaged in activities where we are weak.
Big point: You still have to work on your weaknesses - at least to the point where they don't interfere with your strengths.
Big point 2: Most people sometime have to do unfun stuff at work.
The DVD is a nice touch and well done. Also included is a special note book to help you discover/note your strengths and weaknesses. Finding our weaknesses is generally pretty easy because we have lots of people pointing out our weaknesses. Finding our strengths is a little more difficult as we sometimes have the tendency to think "oh, anybody could be good at that, it's not hard".
For the skeptic, I recommend reading "Now, Discover Your Strengths" first. It gives a thorough background and description of the research done to reach some of these conclusions. This package is more succinct and is a very easy read.
And who doesn't like to hear Marcus talk? He's a great speaker.
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