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Do you work hard to overcome your weak points? What if you focused on your strong points instead?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An accompaniment to Gallup\u2019s popular online strengths test, StrengthsFinder 2.0 <\/em>by Tom Rath helps you understand and implement your test results to maximize your potential. Both the test and book are based on the idea that you shouldn\u2019t try to correct your weaknesses\u2014as most schools and workplaces have you do\u2014but should rather build upon your strongest innate abilities. Doing this gives you the greatest chance of succeeding in whatever you pursue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s more on why you should focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

The Problem With Modern Self-Improvement<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Most forms of personal improvement, whether they apply to job performance, a creative pursuit, or education, revolve around correcting <\/strong>weaknesses<\/em><\/strong>, writes Rath. For example, if you take an art class, your teacher will likely try to improve your abilities by addressing your weakness of not being able to sketch well. This approach to improvement is predicated upon the idea that you can overcome any weakness if you invest enough effort into doing so, asserts Rath. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: This approach to improvement is also <\/em>crucially predicated upon the idea that you know <\/em>what your weaknesses are. However, many people don\u2019t because they have a blind spot for their weaknesses<\/a>: They\u2019re unable to see them or don\u2019t perceive them as serious.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You Can\u2019t Fully Overcome Your Weaknesses<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

However, Rath claims that you <\/strong>can\u2019t<\/em><\/strong> overcome every weakness by simply trying hard enough<\/strong>. You have certain innate weaknesses you can\u2019t get rid of\u2014or shouldn\u2019t try to get rid of because the costs of doing so would outweigh the minor improvements you\u2019d see. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, you might be innately bad at science. You could spend hundreds of hours studying to overcome this weakness. However, even if you do so, you still won\u2019t succeed as much as someone who\u2019s innately gifted in science. You\u2019ll thus have spent hundreds of hours striving toward something you\u2019ll never excel at, rather than striving toward something you can <\/em>excel at.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Rath argues that trying to overcome weaknesses can have major downsides. A particularly harmful downside of attempting to eradicate your apparent \u201cflaws\u201d is that in certain situations, they can be strengths. For example, perfectionism can be both a weakness<\/a>\u2014it leads to extreme self-criticism and black-or-white thinking\u2014and a strength: It often leads to excellent output. If you tried to eradicate your perfectionism entirely, your output may suffer.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Solution: Build on Your Innate Abilities<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Instead of investing time and energy into canceling out your weaknesses, focus on your strengths, not your weaknesses. Strive to build on your innate abilities, recommends Rath. Doing so gives you a far greater chance of growing and succeeding in whatever you pursue, especially your career. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, rather than trying to improve your sketching abilities (your weakness), focus on landscapes, which you\u2019re innately good at. That way, you\u2019ll become an exceptional landscape artist, whereas if you invest equal energy into your sketches, you\u2019ll be average at best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: Rath contends that building upon your innate abilities helps you succeed in your pursuits, including at work. In So Good They Can\u2019t Ignore You<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Cal Newport takes this idea a step further to say that building upon innate abilities is how you get to do work you not only excel at, but also enjoy<\/em><\/a>. It\u2019s incorrect to think you can stumble upon a dream job<\/a> that only requires your existing, undeveloped skill set, claims Newport. Instead, build up your innate abilities so you become such a valuable asset that employers let you do exactly the sort of work you want to do.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To focus on strengthening your innate abilities, first identify<\/em> them, writes Rath. This is where the Strengths Test comes in: The test checks for 34 innate abilities and tells you what your top five or 10 are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Shortform note: The ethics and usefulness of personality tests like the Strengths Test and the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) have been widely debated. In particular, critics claim that the MBTI has little grounding in psychology and, when used in a hiring context, doesn\u2019t correlate with later job performance<\/a>. What\u2019s more, it may be a bad idea to rely on personality tests to inform your work and lifestyle choices, as Rath recommends. This is because such tests can present an inaccurately narrow view of your personality<\/a>, causing you to limit yourself to certain activities when you\u2019d actually enjoy and excel at a wider range of pursuits.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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