“What is your biggest weakness?”
Identify — and Develop — Your Natural Strengths
Strategies for cultivating the skills that come easily to you, rather than focusing on the ones that don’t.
June 19, 2024
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Summary.
When we think of self-improvement, we tend to focus on our weaknesses. But that means we often underestimate our strengths — or even don’t recognize them at all. In this article, the author explains why we’ve developed this focus on weakness, and she then lays out a program for identifying and developing our strengths, with a particular focus on natural abilities that we might take for granted and therefore overlook.