Forget Your Weaknesses

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Where attention goes, energy flows

Ignore your weaknesses, just focus on your strengths. This may seem counter-intuitive, but see how this works for you. Where attention goes, energy flows. If you pay attention to a weak area you have, then you identify yourself with that weakness.

Strategy

A better strategy would be to blow up your strengths, so that people don’t identify you by your weaknesses. Make your weaknesses irrelevant due to how much you compensate for them with your strengths.

Dichotomy

There is no such thing as a perfect human being, so stop trying to become one. Some characteristics are impossible to coexist. I believe strengths and weakness are a dichotomy, and complement each other.

“Go all in on your strengths.”
-Gary Vee

Forget Your Weaknesses

I’d go as far as to say to not even know your weaknesses off the top of your head. Just study your strengths. If you even remember your weaknesses, that judgmental voice in your head will haunt you with them and give you limiting beliefs.

Find What Makes You Special

Our brains are all structured differently. Some people have more biological emphasis on certain characteristics of their personality, so don’t try to fight it. It’s like trying to fight your height; some people are short and some people are tall, but it’s your job to find the benefit of whatever you have. Let’s leave it at that.