Parents, Do You Know if Your Child is a Rabbit or Eagle?

Teaching rabbits to fly and eagles to swim is not a productive use of time. Rabbits can do their best to fly but will never be at their best flying. Eagles can do their best to swim but will never be at their best swimming. The only way rabbits and eagles can be at their […]

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Combining the Strengths Mindset with the Growth Mindset for the Win

Investing time to get better at what you enjoy is the essence of the strengths mindset. In addition, the strengths mindset is an approach that shuns fixing weaknesses, and instead focuses on strengthening strengths and only managing weaknesses. The growth mindset is a mindset that trust that hard work will lead to self-improvement regardless of […]

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Ben Simmons as an Example of How Not to Compensate for a Weakness

If you follow my coaching philosophy, you know I have a rather strong opinion about dealing with strengths and weaknesses. There are two rules of thumb I live by when it comes to deciding whether to build strengths or fix weaknesses. The first rule is to spend as little time, energy, and emotion in areas of […]

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