Using your character strengths as a way to have a ‘life-well-lived’ was a concept that blew me away when I was first introduced to it several years ago. And it remains one of the things that resonates with me most about positive psychology. It just makes complete sense. Why wouldn’t you use the things you are naturally good at on…
We’ve all had a job we’ve hated for one reason or another. My own personal low came during one of my first jobs after I’d graduated. It was an almost exclusively female environment and my co-workers were lovely. The boss was not. From the hundreds of examples I could give you, one that really sticks out happened at a ‘team-building’…