Roots grow first
Lately, I have been trying to understand what my strengths are as a person. In this generation, self-awareness, especially about one’s strengths and weaknesses, is the biggest asset one can have to excel in the professional world. Every recruiter we go for interviews is trying to answer that question for themselves by what we say, to see if we fit the larger goal the company has. I can’t say I have a lot of experience giving interviews, but I know one thing, the most important strength that defines us as a person is not our overt skills, but what’s inside, particularly, our values. That’s what people resonate with the most, including companies wanting to hire us. Our value system grows over time, every interaction we have as we keep growing defines that part of us. We learn how to love and live based on our core values. And that’s what I want to talk about today. In my undergraduate days, we had a subject called educational psychology. The idea was basically to break down the pre...