Our strength matching system — the system that discovers the strengths in a person and then matches them with a corresponding career — can often lead to startling coincidences.

We were recently counselling a 9th standard boy in Vadodara in the presence of his parents. The boy's strengths pointed very strongly towards a career in sports, more specifically in cricket. The psychometric tests indicated a phenomenal aptitude and strength for cricket. For Indian children we do not normally advise a single-minded focus on sports as a full-time career considering the non-professional hurdles that are often encountered along the way. We usually prefer to recommend that the strength in sports be first worked upon as a hobby. In this case, however, the test results were overwhelmingly pointing towards cricket; we were convinced that he will certainly succeed in cricket. We therefore made this suggestion — of cricket as a career — very strongly.