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Jasprit Bumrah through a strengths lens

Bhumika Shah of Gallup India watched my earlier full length video on YouTube on India's victory in the 2024 T20 world cup and asked me for a short write up on the current victory. Last Wednesday, on my way to attend a Medicine Free Life retreat in Velhe outside of Pune, I quickly sent her a note which she has shared with this video on the Gallup Certified Strengths-Coaches India Alumni Group. Thanks a lot Bhumika for sharing that note. Here is the full length note. Tagging and thanking you Anurag Pathak and Parth for the help in editing this shorter video. Few more short videos coming in the weeks to come. For the moment, here's my take on Jasprit Bumrah from the current victory and the video is my take on him from the last world cup from a strengths lens: Consistency is a term that is more than often used to describe winners. But one person who has been consistent in India’s performance over the last 2 wins has been Jasprit Bumrah. He’s been consistently accurate and deadly...
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Strengths, Weaknesses and Humour

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Often as a strengths coach, the challenge I face in my training and coaching sessions is to try and undo decades of conditioning and muscle memory that my participants bring to the room in terms of what they are taught to see as strengths and weaknesses. It takes me quite a while to help them understand that a lesser talent is not the same as weakness. Dr. Donald Clifton, the Father of Strengths Psychology defined talent as any naturally recurring pattern of thoughts, feelings and behaviour that can be productively applied. The 34 talent themes are then divided into signature themes, dominant themes, supporting themes and lesser themes. Gallup defines weakness as a misapplication of a talent that causes problems for you or others and comes in the way of your success or derails you. In a way, a talent theme that is in one’s top 10 dominant themes could also be a weakness if it is misapplied. Sometimes, humour helps us to learn things better. I find numerous humorous stories in movies an...
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