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“The first ten minutes of sorting through clothing was like choosing which child of mine should live or die.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“One evening, intending to ask my host mother to wake me the next morning (okosu), I ask her to violently rape me (okasu). She is very confused.”
― Timothy Ferriss, The 4-Hour Workweek

“If you work hard doing the wrong job, is it really work? Or is it some kind of fakery?”
― D.J. MacHale, The Travelers: Book Two

“It was beyond embarrassing or humiliating or even mortifying. It was ego-slaying!”
― Wendelin Van Draanen, Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things

“First, he became aware of it. Many of us don't seem able to take even this step. Second, and most significant, he chose not to focus on reinforcing its weaker threads. Instead, he did the exact opposite: He identified its strongest threads, wove in education and experience, and built them into the dominating strengths we see today.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“1. Each person's talents are enduring and unique.

2. Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“The definition of a strength that we will use throughout this book is quite specific: consistent near perfect performance in an activity.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“The acid test of a strength? The ability is a strength only if you can fathom yourself doing it repeatedly, happily, and successfully.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“When we studied them, excellent performers were rarely well rounded. On the contrary, they were sharp.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Third, you will excel only by maximizing your strengths, never by fixing your weaknesses. This is not the same as saying 'ignore your weaknesses.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“To develop a strength in any activity requires certain natural talents.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Talents are your naturally recurring patterns of thought, feeling, or behavior.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Knowledge consists of the facts and lessons learned.

Skills are the steps of an activity.

These three-talents, knowledge, and skills-combine to create your strengths.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“There is one sure way to identify your greatest potential for strength: Step back and watch yourself for a while. Try an activity and see how quickly you pick it up, how quickly you skip steps in the learning and add twists and kinks you haven't been taught yet. See whether you become absorbed in the activity to such an extent that you lose track of time. If none of these has happened after a couple of months, try another activity and watch-and another. Over time your dominant talents will reveal themselves, and you can start to refine them into a powerful strength.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Thus, the lesson we should draw from these people is not that each person's talents are infinitely malleable or that they can be anything they want to be if they just apply themselves. Rather, the lesson is that talents, like intelligence, are value neutral. If you want to change your life so that others may benefit from your strengths, then change your values. Don't waste time trying to change your talents.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Skills are so enticingly helpful that they obscure their two flaws. The first flaw is that while skills will help you perform, they will not help you excel.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“The second flaw is that some activities, almost by definition, defy being broken down into steps.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“The bottom line on skills is this: A skill is designed to make the secrets of the best easily transferable. If you learn a skill, it will help you get a little better, but it will not cover for a lack of talent. Instead, as you build your strengths, skills will actually prove most valuable when they are combined with genuine talent.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Talent is any recurring pattern of thought, feeling, or behavior that can be productively applied.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Rather, your smartness and your effectiveness depend on how well you capitalize on your strongest connections.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“If nature didn't whittle down your network to a smaller number of strongly forged connections, you would never become an adult. You would remain a permanent child, frozen in sensory overload.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“The boundaries of human experience are finite (if you haven't experienced emotions such as pain or fear or shame, you are either a sociopath or an alien), but within these boundaries there is significant range and diversity.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“The point here is not that you should always forgo this kind of weakness fixing. The point is that you should see it for what it is: damage control, not development. And as we mentioned earlier, damage control can prevent failure, but it will never elevate you to excellence.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“While your spontaneous reactions provide the clearest trace of your talents, here are three more clues to keep in mind: yearnings, rapid learning, and satisfactions. Yearnings reveal the presence of a talent, particularly when they are felt early in life.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Rapid learning offers another trace of talent. Sometimes a talent doesn't signal itself through yearning. For a myriad of reasons, although the talent exists within you, you don't hear its call. Instead, comparatively late in life, something sparks the talent, and it is the speed at which you learn a new skill that provides the telltale clue to the talent's presence and power.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“Satisfactions provide the last clue to talent. As we described in the previous chapter, your strongest synaptic connections are designed so that when you use them, it feels good. Thus, obviously, if it feels good when you perform an activity, chances are that you are using a talent.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“But if you find yourself thinking in the future, if you find yourself actually anticipating the activity-'When can I do this again?'-it is a pretty good sign that you are enjoying it and that one of your talents is in play.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“The only possible failure would be never managing to find the right role or the right partners to help you realize that strength.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths

“In Martin Seligman's words, 'Psychology is half-baked, literally half-baked. We have baked the part about mental illness. We have baked the part about repair and damage. But the other side is unbaked. The side of strengths, the side of what we are good at, the side…of what makes life worth living.”
― Donald O. Clifton, Now, Discover Your Strengths: The revolutionary Gallup program that shows you how to develop your unique talents and strengths