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The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong with Eric Barker

The Science of Success

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The Importance of Knowing Your Strengths

I think the great word there is compensate right and people might get confused when they think about focusing on strength versus focus on weaknesses if you find a way to compensate for your weaknesses then that enables you to focus deeply on your strengths. So any system or tool that you can leverage to do that is fine. I see people who because of their time at an organization or with a particular boss or maybe their time in the military they develop certain good habits, so training yourself in terms of habits can be a personal way to compensated for your weaknesses. If you're an entrepreneur or if you have direct reports you can be cognizant of this and hire to attempt to deliberately compensate foryour weaknesses.

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