Find Your Strongest Life

[Outverb]

OK... so you are saying that women can only learn from women, and men can only learn from men?

[realwomenscrap]

Sounds like Marcus Buckingham has another winner on his hands.

[jriceblue]

Amazing cinematography! Kudos to whomever shot this.

But, two big questions:

1) Why is this specific to women? Men aren't looking for their strongest life?

2) Given your answer to (1)... why on earth is a man marketing this?!

Don't get me wrong: I'm all for people finding out what they're about, and moreso for them going for that one great thing.

But something of this smacks of serious gender bias, and I would advise anyone partaking in it to proceed with caution.

[jriceblue]

...Just a followup comment: I'm a fan of the author's other books, as well as a proponent of the "Positive Psychology" movement in general. They're genuinely good stuff. This one just strikes me as a huge mistake: if a gender-specific book was required, then it seems to me that it should have been marketed by a women. All well and good if it was /endorsed/ by Buckingham, but it seems to me a bitter and ironic tactical error to make it him telling women what to do with their lives.

[blskywtwtr]

I've seen and read enough Marcus Buckingham to confidently say that his core proposition is gender transparent. You - gender indifferent - are designed for and good at something, and will realize your greatest potential when you discover and apply that something.

Nice that he skewered the overrated goal of balance early on. That alone makes the book worth reading, and I'm a dude.

Check out Dan Gilbert's Stumbling on Happiness for another perspective on happiness as a goal...