Comments on: Your Childhood is a Guide to Your Career http://www.leapwalking.com/2008/06/21/your-childhood-is-a-guide-to-your-career/ Navigating Today's Future Thu, 15 Apr 2010 17:52:16 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: boon http://www.leapwalking.com/2008/06/21/your-childhood-is-a-guide-to-your-career/comment-page-1/#comment-41 boon Mon, 30 Jun 2008 03:27:36 +0000 http://www.leapwalking.com/?p=31#comment-41 <em>greg, thanks for your comment. About weaknesses - I feel, because of the limited amount of time we have on hand, that we should do enough to make sure our weaknesses are in check. The point isn't in becoming super in all aspects, but to invest quality time to our strengths and personal traits, while making sure that our weaknesses meet a 'pass' grade. There is a higher tendency to ignore our strengths because it comes naturally to us - this shouldn't be the case. Boon</em> greg, thanks for your comment. About weaknesses – I feel, because of the limited amount of time we have on hand, that we should do enough to make sure our weaknesses are in check. The point isn’t in becoming super in all aspects, but to invest quality time to our strengths and personal traits, while making sure that our weaknesses meet a ‘pass’ grade. There is a higher tendency to ignore our strengths because it comes naturally to us – this shouldn’t be the case.

Boon

]]> By: gregory http://www.leapwalking.com/2008/06/21/your-childhood-is-a-guide-to-your-career/comment-page-1/#comment-40 gregory Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:40:48 +0000 http://www.leapwalking.com/?p=31#comment-40 hi boon, i've been following penelope's blog and decided to scan through brazencareerist.com to see if there any contributors from my part of the world. Good Stuff. Few things I wanna highlight: 1. Myers-Briggs and co. provide great interesting insights about our tendencies (i'm an EFNP) but like most personality tests, it tends to place us in a box. So I liked about what you said how counselling is part science, part relationship. Ultimate we're each made unique by our Creator. 2. I come from a organization which is strength-based. While I agree with you and penelope about leveraging and developing your strengths, what do you think about this theory (which i support) whereby since your strengths will always come naturally to you, why don't we concentrate on improving our weaknesses? (i'm assuming everyone like using their strengths?) 3. I think sometimes setting milestones can anchor us down to a specific path which "forces" us to choose a career to achieve those milestones. Like how Randy Pausch sets to achieve his childhood dreams. Or how I set a list of 100 things to do before I die. One of them being completing an Ironman which forces me to take a job that actually allows me the time to do so! hi boon,

i’ve been following penelope’s blog and decided to scan through brazencareerist.com to see if there any contributors from my part of the world. Good Stuff.

Few things I wanna highlight:

1. Myers-Briggs and co. provide great interesting insights about our tendencies (i’m an EFNP) but like most personality tests, it tends to place us in a box. So I liked about what you said how counselling is part science, part relationship. Ultimate we’re each made unique by our Creator.

2. I come from a organization which is strength-based. While I agree with you and penelope about leveraging and developing your strengths, what do you think about this theory (which i support) whereby since your strengths will always come naturally to you, why don’t we concentrate on improving our weaknesses? (i’m assuming everyone like using their strengths?)

3. I think sometimes setting milestones can anchor us down to a specific path which “forces” us to choose a career to achieve those milestones. Like how Randy Pausch sets to achieve his childhood dreams. Or how I set a list of 100 things to do before I die. One of them being completing an Ironman which forces me to take a job that actually allows me the time to do so!

]]> By: boon http://www.leapwalking.com/2008/06/21/your-childhood-is-a-guide-to-your-career/comment-page-1/#comment-38 boon Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:54:09 +0000 http://www.leapwalking.com/?p=31#comment-38 <em>Hi adeline, Thanks for your comments. This childhood to career thing is not entirely from my wife's career counselor. It's a combination of a few things, and my own experience is one of those few things. Counseling is part science, part relationship. It's about knowing who we really are inside. Being in a specific industry or job may not necessarily mean it's not the right fit. When I did a career profiling test as a college student, the only thing the test could conclude was to provide historical records of job types of other people who matched my personality profile. There's no clear answer as to what job or career will fit. Which was what I meant by my last sentence - it's important to do what you are, not what you love.</em> Hi adeline,
Thanks for your comments.
This childhood to career thing is not entirely from my wife’s career counselor. It’s a combination of a few things, and my own experience is one of those few things.
Counseling is part science, part relationship. It’s about knowing who we really are inside. Being in a specific industry or job may not necessarily mean it’s not the right fit.
When I did a career profiling test as a college student, the only thing the test could conclude was to provide historical records of job types of other people who matched my personality profile. There’s no clear answer as to what job or career will fit.
Which was what I meant by my last sentence – it’s important to do what you are, not what you love.

]]> By: adeline http://www.leapwalking.com/2008/06/21/your-childhood-is-a-guide-to-your-career/comment-page-1/#comment-37 adeline Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:31:42 +0000 http://www.leapwalking.com/?p=31#comment-37 Hey boon, stumbled upon your website while searching for a restaurant online. But, what a glad accident this is- I love your insight to life and the way you blog out those thoughts. Keep it up! Did you get this childhood to career thing from your wife's career counselor? Because if you did, I feel glad that there's science that kinda confirms my suspicion tht I may not have taken a wrong career choice. Hey boon, stumbled upon your website while searching for a restaurant online. But, what a glad accident this is- I love your insight to life and the way you blog out those thoughts. Keep it up! Did you get this childhood to career thing from your wife’s career counselor? Because if you did, I feel glad that there’s science that kinda confirms my suspicion tht I may not have taken a wrong career choice.

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