Beyondblue: the national depression initiative. Strengths + their influence on your happiness. Building ‘strengths’ means... focussing on the best parts of you not worrying about your flaws and weaknesses using your best qualities more often. What are strengths? ‘Strengths’ are the best parts of your personality. A good way to understand what this means exactly is to think about your friends. Hilarious Fun Kind Creative Passionate Enthusiastic These great parts of your friends’ personalities are a few examples of different strengths. We’re not talking about talents, like being a fast runner or a great guitar player (or whatever your thing is).
The reason strengths are so important is that everybody is at their best and happiest when they are using the best parts of themselves, or their individual strengths. Everyone has twenty four strengths Researchers have identified twenty four different personality strengths, which everyone in the world has.
Check out the Happiness Institute's list of the twenty four different personality strengths. Why would I focus on my strengths? Reach Out Australia.