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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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Avg. Customer Rating:  66 reviews
Sales Rank: 11039
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 112
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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Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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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 Youis 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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 More of the same, but still great December 1, 2008
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 November 26, 2008
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? November 26, 2008
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 November 26, 2008
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!
A Concise Look at Working Toward Your Strengths November 25, 2008
Marcus Buckingham's latest book, The Truth About You, is a well-packaged look at discerning a reader's strengths and weaknesses while trying to move the reader to live a life that provides more time for the former and requires less of the latter.
Buckingham encourages the reader to work to identify his strengths and then incorporate those strengths (not necessarily things the reader is good at but things he enjoys doing) more into his everyday life. The book comes packaged with a DVD that is essentially a Cliff's Notes for the book and a steno pad colorfully labeled "rememo," which the reader uses to write down strengths and weaknesses as they happen.
The essential goal of all of this is to fill the reader's life with more time for fulfilling and rewarding work. Buckingham acknowledges that there are risks involved, but he believes that, at some point, the risks for not following our strengths outweighs the potential pitfalls of trying to become the people we are meant to be. The book is well put together, and it provides an enjoyable and concise read. It should appeal to anyone who finds himself in the wrong job or on the wrong career path. Buckingham's essential conceit is that you know yourself better than anyone who might give advice around you. You know you. And now, or so Buckingham hopes, you know the truth about you.
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