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Sunday, November 18, 2012

Strengths and Weaknesses


What do you work on -your strengths or weaknesses?

If you were to believe in development school of thought, then you should work on identifying and plugging your development needs.

If you were to believe in strengths school of thought, then you should capitalize on your strengths to plug your gaps.

Strengths school of thought appeals more to me - Let´s capitalize on our strengths!

But then there are times when I stumble across a blind spot of mine  - a movement from unconscious incompetence to conscious competence in learning stages.

In such times I wonder 'I didn't know till now that this was my blind spot. In past, have my strengths covered for these blind spots? Maybe! I don't know! But I could have had made more effective use of my time/resources if I had known my weaknesses'.

So Yes! We should leverage our strengths. But we should also attempt to be aware of our weaknesses.

This will enable us to use our strengths more appropriately and effectively.

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Sourav