I Am a Weak Chicken

As part of my “Branding” experience I went out and bought the book Strengths Finder 2.0.  Contained in this book is a code which enables you to fill in an on-line questionnaire to discover your strengths.  I would just like to point out here that nowhere in the book does it claim to also help you discover your weaknesses. 

This author of this book believes that the thinking behind the 

YOU can do anything YOU want to do if YOU work hard enough

dictum, inherent in all those who grew up in the United States of America and presumably watched too many episodes of Lassie, is balderdash and that you are better off, much better off, working hard at your strengths and I presume ignoring or at least delegating your shortcomings (i.e. weaknesses but this is an American author writing and a word such as weakness is akin to words like death or genital warts.)  

   (…..did you know that Chickens lay naturally about 1 dozen eggs a year?….) 

Being hedonistically inclined, I was more than excited to start the questionnaire. I set aside a whole morning to wallow in my wonderfulness.  I opened the red envelope with care, got on line, entered the secret code then….then…inadvertently pressed SIGN OUT!!!  My secret code was no longer valid! AND I hadn’t even started!

This questionnaire is amazing within 30 seconds it had highlighted one of my essential weaknesses!!! Not good at details, insufficiently thorough, gets over-excited with a tendency to dimwittedness. 

(…….nowadays due to factory farming methods a chicken lays about 300 eggs a year….)

My friend Angela called from Paris just as I was attempting the 100th try to log back-in and listened to my wailing grievances.  She was, however, of absolutely no help whatsoever as she was overcome with a coughing fit bordering on apoplexy so much so that she had to put the phone down.

Copyright Jules Ritter April 2008

PS One last word.  My neighbour, behind the barn, has a cockerel. I am going to investigate perhaps he has chickens!