The Importance of Learning to Capture Your Strengths

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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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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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