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Summary:
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.
Customer Reviews:
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a must for every person wanting to grow as a leader
Customer Rating:
I first heard about Marcus Buckingham after a few friends came back from Catalyst one year. They were enamored and thought the guy was awesome. Always skeptical, I watched his short film: Trombone Player Wanted... loved it. I was as hooked as my friends were. When his new book The Truth about You was an option for the Thomas Nelson Bloggers, I made sure I got my hands on a copy. It didn't disappoint. First of all the packaging is just great design. Silver and light blue combine and make one flashy presentation, and the DVD and notebook casing become just eye candy for any print designer out there. But this isn't a review of graphic design. This is a review on content. The DVD played on the idea of the Trombone story, with Marcus' communicating a brief over of the book. The intro says that this is optional, but I highly recommend taking the time to watch this. The set up for what you'll read is worth the time. This actually is why it took me so long to finish this read; I found it hard to carve out some time to watch the film. Once I did, the book flew. Even with the exercises, I finished the The Truth about You in two nights. The content was well thought provoking and well communicated. The homework is worth the effort. I'm two days in the project, but so far have found it invaluable for discovering some important feelings regarding my work and ministry. I look forward to putting the principles from this book into practice as I develop as a leader in my profession. The words come across as they are coming straight from Buckingham's heart. He is passionate about his work and developing leaders across the world. This is evident through each anecdote and life principle. I got the impression that even though he has no clue who I am, he actually cares if I succeed or not. I can highly recommend this book for people who want to discover why they're not happy at work, for those who are just beginning their career, as well as established teams that want to increase creativity and productivity.
A DVD to watch & rewatch - along with a book
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I actually reviewed this book on my blog[...] today. At first glance, I was less than enthusiastic about "The Truth About You" by Mr. Buckingham. But, after popping the DVD into my computer I was TOTALLY turned around. Marcus Buckingham is a brilliant motivational speaker and even if you do NOTHING more with this package than watch the DVD, it will have been worth the price of the book. I have a son who'll be graduating college this year and I have the feeling that he'll gain a GREAT amount of knowledge about his strengths and weaknesses and how to use them to his best advantage from this book/DVD.
The Truth about The Truth About You
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"Every one of us has in him a continent of undiscovered character. Blessed is he who acts as Columbus to his own soul." (Author Unknown) The Truth about You is a simple, easy to read book that inspires one to dig a little digger into our "undiscovered character" and aids people on the journey of self discovery. Buckingham presents challenging thoughts such as "Your strengths aren't what you're good at and your weaknesses aren't what you're bad so you'd better find out what your real strengths are" and "You will never find the perfect job." This is the type of advice I wish I had read twenty years ago. The unique format of a book, DVD and notebook appeals to every style of learner. The book's primary meaning is to develop and work from your strengths. While his message is very valuable, I found myself wanting a little more "meat" to the topic. The whole package is a lot of flash and not as much substance. Yet reading The Truth About You is not a waste of time and can inspire people to rediscover their core essence. It would be wonderful high school or college graduation gift.
This is not my strength...
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It will likely take you longer to watch the video that comes with this book than it will take you to read the five chapters. Either way, you can probably pound it out in one sitting. Buckingham gives what appears to be some great advice for how we should each try to play to our strengths in life. He also gives some fairly simple application steps for how you can figure out what your own strengths (and even weaknesses) are. What's the goal? To get yourself into a situation where you find yourself working on your strengths a majority of your time while you attempt to pass on your weaknesses to others who are strong in those areas. Buckingham is a very engaging author who obviously knows how to inspire people. He offers you hope while almost pushing you to believe in yourself. I know it sounds a little simplistic but I'm sure you'll find the infamous words of Rob Schneider racing through your head, "You can do it!" As for me, the jury will likely be out until I can work through the ReMemo pad, which is basically the project of figuring out my own strengths and weaknesses. In short, it's worth a read if you would like to do some self-reflecting while doing a little "on the job" homework.
Becoming Shiny Happy People (with a shiny happy book)
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My biggest qualm about this book is the packaging. It's a big block of a book with compartments built in for the notepad (er, reMemo pad) and the DVD, but the text itself is dwarfed in all this cardboard. I'd have much rather seen the book come out of the packaging as a separate entity as well, but that's just my preference i suppose.
Cracking into the shiny silver packaging and digging into the actual book, though, i found it to be full of interesting tidbits, thoughts, suggestions, and ideas worthwhile for the hearing. A tad repetitious and playing simply to common sense, but definitely a thoughtful topic and one I've been working through personally over the last few months, so it was very timely in that regard.
It doesn't tell you what to do with your life, but it does help you realize whether or not you're doing what you should be doing if you hope to maximize your potential and actually (*gasp*) enjoy your work.
There are a lot of books on this topic and many of them have similar advice to offer, but this book - with the accompanying DVD - stands out a little bit in my mind. Seems to make more practical sense than, say, The Dip.
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