Justin Douglas: Know Thyself and Transform Your Talents into Strengths | #022

In this episode, we talk about being aware of your very own strengths, the CliftonStrengths assessment and how to interpret your results. Studies show that people that focus on their strengths over and above their weaknesses are 6 times more likely to report feeling engaged in their role and 3 times more likely to report an excellent quality of life. Even if you share talents and strengths with someone else (the chance of having the same top 5 in the same order as someone else is 1: 33.000.000), you may be a very different character and you will learn why. We talk about perfectionism and why good enough sometimes is very well sufficient. Justin and I compare our reports and we discuss what similarities mean and what they do not mean. We evaluate that we don’t need a scientist to tell us that we are full of incredible differences and value for our society, but it can help! We discuss exceptional breakthrough moments of clients that Justin has worked with and we go into a deep dive on “self-assurance”. We then turn to a topic on lots of people’s minds, sustainability and eco anxiety: we discuss that actions are worth doing if they are simply inherently good and we make a link to strengths. Justin also links sustainability to injustice and shares his very personal message with you and the world.

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Links to topics and people discussed in this episode:
Clifton Strengths: https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/home.aspx
Vision podcast: https://ismaelvondergathen.com/step-by-step-guide-to-find-your-core-values-and-craft-your-life-vision/
Hannah Miller: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hannahloumiller/
Barack Obama: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro - Just Another Mindset Podcast
00:51 What we talked about today
02:12 Welcome Justin - a Royal week and no five year plans
08:00 Trust your inherent talent and strengths
11:59 Understanding the CliftonStrengths assessment
18:33 Interpreting the results
21:12 Talents and Strengths
24:03 Justin, “mastery” and “good enough”
29:37 When strengths become institutionalised
37:20 Justin and I compare our reports
47:24 You are beautifully unique
51:21 Breakthrough moments of clients
58:23 Justin helps us to understand “self-assurance”
01:05:29 Sustainability, injustice and a message to the world
01:15:19 Get to know Justin better
01:16:19 Final questions for Justin
01:25:28 Outro - Just Another Mindset

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