I bought this book mainly to find out what my strengths were. I was intreague by the method how the queries were structured. I have done many of these kind of personality finder and they often allows you to think of whats right and whats wrong and your answer were skewed. The book on the whole does not worth a dime for it. It was first published in 2001 and extremely outdated. This was just on the book version and not actually the content. The book helped me to identify and realize what my strengths were. To the purpose of the book, it was extremely useful and it serves the purpose well. However, after reading to the middle of the book, which calls the reader to go online to take the strengthsfinder.com test, I found out that there is a newer book, titled Strenghsfinder 2.0, with an updated version of test and a structured method of improvement. Of which this version of book severely lacks. This book only helps you to realize who you are and stop short on that. It encourages you to go improve, but provide no means of achiving that. Therefore, my summary of this book is to bypass it, and go to the next stop, which is the latest and greatest version of the book Strengthsfinder 2.0. Rating of 4 star out of 5 for the content of the book, while I encourage to get the later version.

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