Improvement Is a Process of Building Up and Amplifying What Is Right About Us

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improvement can also be a process of building up and amplifying what is right about us. A weakness is neer going to turn into strength, but you're better off working on your strengths. What are the things that come naturally to you? What do you get energy from perform? And so our natural inclination is to sort of engage in improvement by fixing what is wrong with us.

Psychologist Lea Waters talks about tools you need to tap into your strengths.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The best way to tap into your strengths

2) Why our strengths are often hiding–and how to find them

3) The hack that halts anxiety

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— ABOUT LEA —

Lea Waters AM, PhD is a psychologist, researcher, professor, published author, internationally-celebrated keynote speaker and one of the world’s leading experts on Positive Education, Positive Organizations and Strength-Based Parenting and Teaching.

Professor Waters is the Founding Director and Inaugural Gerry Higgins Chair in Positive Psychology at the Centre for Positive Psychology, University of Melbourne where she has held an academic position for more than 23 years.

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