I think people have a much clearer sense of their weaknesses than their strengths. Maybe there's not nearly enough emphasis on really understanding your greatest strengths and how to enhance them. I wonder if a way to tackle our weaknesses when they do arise is to kind of apply a similar mentality where we say, okay, generally, I am not very good at proofreading my documents,. But within that something that I am good at is listening well.
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To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?
Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.
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