Incredible India Monthly Community Contest for January #1: Strength!

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What's your perspective on the concept of strength? Please describe.

Strength to me does not mean a certain characteristic or show of power, but an adaptive ability to react quite well to adversity. It encompasses physical stamina, but goes way beyond it. Emotional strength is expressed in the readiness to be hurt without turning it into brutality. Mental strength manifests itself in curiosity when under pressure, the readiness to change beliefs, and reluctance to be fixed. Moral strength is making the right choice when there are shortcuts available. Real power is usually silent: making limits, seeking assistance, lying back before failure, or defending a cause alone. It is cultivated with practice, failure and reflection and not coercion. Finally, the art of remaining consistent with ones values whilst being adaptable to change in uncertain and less than perfect human lives is strength.

How can individuals leverage their strengths to foster personal development or contribute to societal improvement? Please elaborate on this concept.

To use their strengths, individuals can first determine what they do best; that is, what they are skilled at, or what they value or what characterizes them in a way that fills their energy and then using those strengths strategically. To enhance the self, it is more sustainable to work on what you are good at to enhance confidence, motivation, and resilience than waste time worrying about what you are not good at. Individuals can sharpen skills with practice, feedback as well as with learning, and employ complementary approach or teamwork to deal with constraints.

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The most potent strengths are those that are congruent with communal needs at the societal level. Creative people are able to create awareness, critical thinkers are able to solve problems in complex situations and compassionate people are able to enhance social relationships. By working in areas that they are most successful, individuals make more contribution with minimal burnout. Businesses must create innovation, inclusiveness, and co-development through fostering diversity in strengths and collaboration that results to the development of individuals and the nation in the long term and even across generations.

Do you believe that strength is inherently and linked to the responsibility of upholding righteousness? Please justify your perspective.

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The responsibility of maintaining righteousness is usually associated with the idea of strength, yet the relationship is moral, as opposed to being intrinsic. Strength, be it physical, political or intellectual, enhances the ability to influence others. Due to this exaggerated effect, it falls particularly on the side that is strong to exercise the power justly. Where power is not guided by moral direction, oppression is easy to follow whereas righteousness which lacks power might not yield productive results. But strength in itself is impartial; it does not necessarily achieve virtue. The duty is not due to power but to a moral reasoning of humans and social demands. In this regard, strength makes a person responsible since it provides choice and consequence, and making righteousness a drunken obligation instead of an inherent quality.

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