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Work on Your Strengths, Not Your Weaknesses
Think of something you want to improve about yourself. How would you categorize the thing you chose: Is it a strength or a weakness?In all likelihood, you chose a weakness. A study from 2016 found that we tend to see weaknesses as more changeable than strengths-which means we're more...
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"Our strength grows out of our weaknesses." - Ralph Waldo Emerson Something that has always intimidated me from starting something new has always been a deep worry about my shortcomings. I know that I have weaknesses, and I'm afraid they'll lead to my failure.
If you want to excel at anything, it's not enough to fix your weaknesses. You also need to leverage your strengths. When Albert Einstein failed a French exam, if he had concentrated only on his language skills, he might never have transformed physics. When J.K.
You have to pick one or a few skills and get started on them and over time start to see what strengths emerge. Since you can find your strength and reach your potential through multiple domains, it doesn't matter so much where you start, as long as you follow two heuristics.