Foreword: Find Me and Write It All _ Koo Bon-hyung

A journey to discover the strengths of the West
Departure - Discover your strengths and embark on an exciting adventure.
Training - Planning Intensely
Group Writing Journey - Learning through Play
Beyond Me to You - Increasing the Versatility of Strengths Discovery
How to use this book
[Warm-up] Finding Your Strengths

Chapter 1: Discovering Your First Strength: Climbing the Mountains
How to Discover Your Strengths Through Life Analysis _ Moon Yo-han
One, this is how I found my strengths - my story
How to Find Your Strengths - Mountain Climbing Methodology
After the Exploration
[Mountain Climbing Summary]

Chapter 2: Discovering the Second Strength: Discovering the DNA Code
Looking at Myself in the Mirror of Family _ Seung-oh Park
Turning Point - Sitting Alone in a World Turned White
Find my DNA code
After the Exploration
[DNA Code Discovery Summary]

Chapter 3: The Third Strength Discovery Method: The Desire Recipe
The Wind That Doesn't Get Caught in the Net: Analyzing "Desire" _ Kim Gwi-ja
Desire Story 95
How to Cook Desire 'Deliciously'
My Cooking - A Story of Temperament Found Through Desire
Let's add flavor to desire
Desire Recipe Test
After the Exploration
[Summary of Desire Recipes]

Chapter 4: The Fourth Strength Discovery Method: Immersion Experience Analysis
I'm in a situation where I'm falling into something without even realizing it _ Han Myeong-seok
People who have to be crazy to survive
My immersive experience
Extracting temperament through immersive experience analysis
The Reality of Immersive Experience Analysis
After the Exploration
[Summary of Immersive Experience Analysis]

Chapter 5: Fifth Strength Discovery Method: Feedback Analysis
Finding Your Hidden Treasure in Outstanding Achievements _ Byung-Gon Oh
Turning Point? When the Door of Life Closes
A case study of discovering strengths through feedback analysis
Feedback Analysis in Practice
After the Exploration
[Feedback Analysis Summary]

Chapter 6: The Sixth Strength Discovery Method: Exploring Your Inner Self
The Objective Me and the Subjective Me Meet! _ Hong Seung-wan
Turning Point - A Collapsing Reality, a Future in My Hands
Exploring Your Inner Self - How to Discover Your Strengths
After the Exploration
[Inner Exploration Summary]

Conclusion: This is how we changed
Appendix Strengths List
Author's Note

A story of great self-discovery by ordinary people who set out to find a turning point in their lives.
If we ordinary people can find our strengths, anyone can find them.
A method for discovering the strengths of six different people, discovered through experience by change management expert Koo Bon-hyung and researchers.

Usually people get together and have fun and then do some work.
A young man who just graduated from college and took a step into society, an eccentric elite who regained his eyesight after facing the threat of blindness, a middle-aged man who entered the path of writing that had been by his side his entire life, an IT expert who started living the way he wanted to live in front of the closed door of life, the owner of a steel company who published four books through thorough self-development, a psychiatrist who opened his eyes to his calling by exploring the questions that had been shackling his life, a corporate training expert who began paving the way to become a management consultant in the midst of a collapsing reality.
They were ordinary-looking eccentrics, 'creative misfits' who wanted to live creatively by discovering their inner heroism, and who sometimes had trouble adapting to society.
At first glance, these ordinary people who seem far from success are discovering their own strengths and using them to achieve success in their respective fields.

What process did they go through to achieve this transformation? How did they discover their strengths? How did they overcome the challenges along the way? They share their stories of how they discovered their strengths and the methods they used to achieve them.


Mountaineering: Discovering the gifts that past misfortunes and pain have given me in the present.
Some of these memories I wish would just be erased.
However, when I looked closely at the past through the light of 'today', it seemed that negative experiences did not necessarily have only negative effects.
The equation ‘negative experience = negative affect’ did not hold true.
If I had to say, I'd say "negative experience = negative influence + positive influence." Just as the saying goes, "life is forged through hardship," there were aspects of me that actually became stronger because of the negative experience.
Of course, even before that, I knew in my head that life grows through suffering.
But only when I looked back on the trajectory of my life did I finally understand the two-faced influence that negative experiences had on my life. (p. 39) _ Psychiatrist Moon Yo-han

Discovering the DNA Code: Finding Common Traits in the Mirror of Family That Reflects Us
As I accepted that I too had the same appearance, things I had not seen before began to become visible.
Only then could I understand my father a little.
And furthermore, I came to know that, like two sides of a coin, behind my father's anger, there was a deeper affection hidden than anyone else's.
Another memory I have of my father were the letters he wrote to me that I found in my mother's closet.
A thick pile of white envelopes.
Three or four times a year, my father would write warm letters to my mother, even on days that weren't special.
Looking back, my father sometimes got angry because his expressions were excessive, but he also didn't hesitate to express his warm feelings.
My father is simply a "strongly expressive person." (p. 71) _Leadership Instructor Seung-Oh Park
The Desire Recipe: Finding Hints About Life in What I Really Want to Do
I made a list of my desires every year, and when I compared them later, something funny happened.
Things I wanted to do like snowboarding or playing the guitar, just like someone else, quickly disappeared over time.
Instead, writing, story-collecting, and traveling, in slightly different forms (from walking to traveling to South America), have become regular items on my wish list (p. 103). I really like traveling.
… … Traveling has given me an opportunity to meet new people and experience different ways of life.
After discovering my other desire hidden behind my desire to travel, I stopped vaguely dreaming of going somewhere. (p. 108) _Kim Gwi-ja, a freshman in society

Inner Exploration: Discover your temperament through encounters between your objective self and your subjective self.
The results of the MBTI test and the StrengthsFinder test were not connected in many ways.
Both contained information about me, but how to integrate them was a challenge.
This was one of the reasons I began my inner exploration. (p. 220) … … If Step 1 was a passive process of objectively approaching myself through a testing tool and obtaining results, Step 2 is a process of proactively discovering the seeds and clues of strengths within me.
We think we don't know ourselves well, but the person who has the most information about us is ourselves.
Therefore, we must gather clues to discover our strengths within ourselves. (p. 228) … … Our own strengths lie deep within us.
The master key to unlocking the mystery of strength is dialogue with yourself. (p. 240) _Corporate training expert Hong Seung-wan

Everyone has strengths, and discovering and developing them is key to realizing your vision and securing expertise.
However, it was difficult to find specific guides that could help you discover your strengths.
This book presents six specific methods for discovering strengths, discovered by change management expert Bonhyung Koo and seven ordinary researchers who were struggling in the real world.
By following their methods, anyone can get one step closer to their goal.
You can discover your strengths and start a new chapter in your life.
Find the me you define, not the me the world defines.
What am I truly good at and what do I want to do?
Everyone has strengths.
Discovering and developing it is the core of self-development.

Why am I not good at anything? I don't know what I'm good at.
The world is changing, but I feel like I'm alone in a closed room.
We live in vague anxiety about an unknown future.
Why is this so? It's because I don't yet know who I am and haven't built my strengths on top of my innate qualities.

Numerous self-help books advise building your future on your strengths.
However, there are still many people who do not even know what their temperamental characteristics are.
If you can't figure out what you're good at, or even jump to the conclusion that you have no strengths at all, you're likely missing out on the wonderful second level of self-actualization.
So where should you find your strengths? There are already widely known tools that help you discover your innate talents, such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), which summarizes your personality type in four keywords; the Strength Finder, which identifies your talents through 34 themes; and the Enneagram, which identifies nine personality types.
Is discovering your strengths the end of just holding the results of these psychological tests?
The authors say that these psychological test results are the beginning of discovering your strengths.
Researchers have found that the concepts used in these tools alone are often insufficient to understand and describe oneself, and that expressing oneself in one's own words is essential to uncovering one's strengths.

We believe there is a 'slow but sure way' to discovering strengths.
It is an empirical method of one individual who succeeded in discovering his strengths.
Just as there are proven methods, such as Oriental medicine and chiropractic, in addition to modern medicine when it comes to treating physical ailments, there are also proven methods, based on personal experience, in addition to formalized tools, for discovering strengths.
By organizing these methods, we hope to encourage readers to choose one or two that work best for them and experiment with them. (p. 16)

Why should we discover our strengths? Benjamin Franklin called untapped strengths "a sundial in the shade."
It's not sad to not be born with genius talent.
The truly sad thing is not finding your strengths or not using them to their full potential.
Discovering your strengths is an opportunity before it is a means.
Because my strengths help me gauge what kind of work and role I am suited for.
If you don't know what you're good at and how you do it, it's hard to figure out which jobs and roles will give you the best performance.

The authors found what they wanted to do through the discovery of their strengths and began a new life.
Anyone can start the second act of their life by experiencing the excitement through this process.