APPENDIX

Strengths Assessment Technical Summary

Development and Validation

BY COURTNEY R. McCASHLAND

My StandOut Mission

We each have clear, vivid moments in time that shape everything that follows. Mine was at the age of twenty-one; I was a senior in college and filled with exuberance for life. I am the youngest of three, and my brother, who was five years my senior, was the truly gifted one. Brilliant, spirited, charming, he drew you in with his charisma. Yet sadly, he was always dissatisfied, searching for that euphoric freedom found when you invest your best and make something good happen. From my view, he wasted so much of what he was because he didn’t choose to, or couldn’t, find a way to engage his strengths.

Curt took his own life after ...

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