Focusing on a Potential Weakness Instead of a Potential Strength

There are things you’re flat out terrible at doing and don’t enjoy spending time working to improve. Those are non-talents that are potential weaknesses. You also have things you are pretty good at doing and enjoy spending time working on, but you’re just not ready for prime time yet. Those are talents that have the […]

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Counterpoint: Preventing Failure Will Not Make You Successful

You can go through life with a mindset of trying to prevent failure or with a mindset of trying to pursue success. The mindset of trying to prevent failure is one that focuses on threats. It causes you to constantly analyze your weaknesses and find ways to keep your weaknesses from causing you to fail. […]

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The Question You Must Answer When You Aren’t Making Enough Progress

Once you put a significant amount of effort into reaching a goal and you recognize you aren’t making enough progress, you must answer this one question before you do anything else. Is there a weakness in my blind spot that I’m either ignoring or taking for granted? Chances are the answer to this question is […]

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