Anyway, I think my greatest strength and wekaness is my passion. I used to work in theatre and film and found that passion is great for that type of work. It requires a certain kind of commitment, drive and interest to really enjoy it and pull it off successfully. When I left the industry to go into academia, I was at first passionate about my research subject, but found the repetitive cycles of teaching, research and publishing really stifling and slow. I went on to do a law degree and again, I was passionate about learning the law and really enjoyed the course. But my stint at a law firm made me realise that the day-to-day work of a lawyer is a lot of repetitive paper-pushing and application. And the whole 9-5 grind was too much for me.

So I’m back in the film and tv industry and working from small jobs upwards again. I love the fact that each new project requires new energy to push through, and each project allows me to make new connections and research new areas of work. It also allows me to work intensively for short spurts of time.

While each new job has taught me new skillsets that enhance my overall performance at my current job, I’m starting to realise i need to work with my personality. I had thought I could take on the trade of a lawyer which would bring certain amount of intellectual work and good money, but in the end, I just felt imprisoned. With my current work, it’s a struggle financially but I feel fulfilled and excited.

The reason I found them helpful was that I have many things that I can do well and am interested in. But not all of them are satisfying. In fact, I’ve found many are quite dissatisfying as a career.

According to the JOCF, interests and skills do not equate to aptitudes. I’ve found that concentrating on working with my aptitudes to be really helpful in finding satisfaction in whatever I’m doing.

Their site explains what they mean by aptitudes and how they test. It’s not like any other testing/evaluation I had ever been exposed to.

Since I thought the book was a little fluffy anyway and I trust the book more - is there a possibility of you devoting a future article to discovering one’s greatest strength?

I too like to learn lots of things as quickly as possible and sometimes find I suffer from and information overload - and start learning another topic before I finish the previous.

I’m currently trying to map out what I want to learn about a topic and complete this before learning something else. Of course, I think that I need to re-asses this map from time to time as it is not concrete. For example, I may dedicate 3 weeks to a new topic, but after 10 days I might find that I have learnt enough about it. In this situation I need to adjust the map accordingly.

Cheers
Dominic.

Most Comic Book readers are much more aware of the details of Kal - El’s story than are those who have only seen movies and TV shows. ( Smallville is exploring some facets of these details as well as creating more. )

But my point, just as Steve’s article, is not about the Comic Book hero. One example is the medical field’s use of the verb “present.” Another example may be found in the vocabulary of marketing. Another example may be found in the proliferation of acronyms.

Whenever those who are on the inside of a field of knowledge attempt to communicate with those outside of that field of knowledge, it helps to remember that your insider vocabulary is unintelligible to those who have not been exposed to it.

Marketers who talk about CGM and ROI and PPC are easily understood by those who are themselves experienced in investing in acquiring and retaining customers but for the small business owner who is trying to figure out why she (or he) is having difficulty competing in her industry’s marketplace, it obscures rather than enlightens.

I knew that Scott meant “What Energizes Your Potential And Expands your Horizons” but those who do not know that Kal - El’s body is the biological equivalent of a solar cell charged energy receptacle, may not have gotten the point of the last question.

(If I misspelled Kal-El, I apologize. - Its been many years since I was an avid reader of Action Comics, World’s Finest and Superman.)

By the way, didn’t Superman’s home planet have a red sun?

He found people read the book all the way through, understood the concept, then continued to do everything the old way that they had always been doing it. The book ultimately had no effect on their behavior. He tried turing the book into a movie, and had some more success, but still not the level he wanted.

Later, he found some amount of success using computer games to teach abstract concepts. People seemed to understand the concept better when they could actually see it affect the game’s character.

I believe Goldratt is still frustrated and constantly trying new methods of teaching, but the idea of using computer games to teach abstract concepts is interesting to me.

Macromedia Flash is also interesting to me. Particularly, Flash on a website as a way of distributing games in a nearly effortless way.