How does one find their strengths?

To find your strengths, Adam Grant recommends the following exercise: ask a group of people who know you well—like family, friends, and colleagues—to tell stories about times when you were at your best. Then, compile these stories and look for common themes. This pattern recognition process helps you understand what your strengths are and the types of situations where you tend to use them effectively. Once identified, you can then seek out or create more opportunities that allow you to utilize those strengths 1.

Adam Grant also suggests that you can flip the exercise by writing stories to people about times when they were at their best. This can be a powerful way to not only recognize others' strengths but to also make utilizing your own strengths a part of your daily life 1.