Working on weakness is a common path to improvement. If we’re good at certain things, then it makes sense to leave well enough alone in those areas. Fix the problem areas and you will be well on your way to being much better – at your job, your favorite sport, or at some other pursuit. You will eliminate mistakes. You will tighten up the loose ends. You will raise your game by raising the low points up to average.
But your strengths need attention too. Positioning yourself to leverage your strengths more often and more daringly can get those skills out of the average or above average range so that you can do something truly great. Exercising your strengths can make the good things you do better, the better things excellent, and the excellent things great. And that’s where you’re more likely to make an impact, to make a real contribution, and to get noticed.
People don’t notice your weaknesses as much as you think they do, but they do notice your strengths more than you do. This is not obvious, because from your perspective it looks precisely the opposite – you cringe at your own weakness, and probably don’t even notice your strengths at play half the time because they come so naturally to you.
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