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To be successful, should you focus on your strengths or your weaknesses? (with Anna Paley)

Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg

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The Importance of Learning to Capture Your Strengths

I really agree that extraordinary people find a way to capitalize on their main strengths and sort of find other ways around their weaknesses rather than having to tackle them directly. And yet this contradicts so much of the advice that we get maybe from our managers or our partners around, you know, you have to do better in this area. I wonder why that comes up, right? Like why are managers constantly telling us all you need more leadership abilities or you need this, that or the other thing to be average in those levels? Yeah, and maybe part of it is that they're trying to mold you into their idea of what success is. But the reality is there are many, many ways to succeed

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