Discovering Your Strengths and Weaknesses: A Practical Guide
"Everyone, regardless of ability or disability, has strengths and weaknesses. Know what yours are. Build on your strengths and find a way around your weaknesses." ~ Brad Cohen
The above quote describes that everyone in this world has their strengths and weaknesses, it doesn’t matter if you are able or disabled, by finding your strengths and working on your weaknesses you can surpass individuals who are not serious about their lives. Building on your strengths and finding a way around your weaknesses is mandatory.
There are infinite numbers of disabled people who are so skilled in their particular area and surpass individuals without any disability.
Some blind people shoot targets sharply without missing, and some handless people shoot arrows from their legs which are stuck in the target more accurately than the individual with his hand.
The thing is that here, the disabled people know their strength and they are dedicated to that.
It is not just about disabled people, it is for everyone to know what they can do effortlessly like they are pro on that thing or they have dedication to be pro.
Finding your strength is very important if you want to succeed in life.
Think about your favourite author, now think what if he hasn’t ever discovered that he can write good stories? If that had happened then their books wouldn’t be there with them and he might do work in an office.
Therefore finding your strength is important, there is no doubt that the bestseller author you read has his strength in writing.
What is strength?
Strengths are inherent qualities or abilities that come naturally to an individual. They are the traits that make you unique and can be a powerful tool for success.
To identify your strengths you must indulge yourself in self-interrogation and self-reflection, seeking feedback from others, like your close friends or family members or anyone you trust.
By knowing your strengths you can be self-aware and also provide valuable insight that can be leveraged to achieve personal and professional growth.
Strength is the key factor for your growth, if you take too long to find your strength then it will take too long to get benefited from it.
Examples of common strengths in people include creativity, leadership, problem-solving skills and many more.
Identifying Your Weakness
There is no individual in this world found only with strengths and no weaknesses, there are some areas in which an individual might lack, and it is subjective. Everyone has different weaknesses, but there is none without weakness. Just like any fantasy monster or a supervillain, there are weaknesses in all. If you do not work on it soon then there are possibilities that people will use it against you and surpass you as well.
These are the areas where you struggle a lot and need improvement, recognizing your weaknesses is crucial for personal growth as it allows you to address them effectively.
Similar to strength weakness can also be found by self-reflection and self introspection. Also by taking the feedback of your close friend or family member.
Common weaknesses found in individuals are, poor interpersonal relationships, procrastination(You can read the article dedicated to procrastination from my profile), poor organization and many more.
Utilising your strength
Once you find your strength, you must utilise it to grow yourself, you must create goals that are related to your strength, and you should pursue the career in which you have your strength.
Now, people without finding their strength might choose the wrong path for themselves. After spending half a life, sometimes even more than half-life, they will find that they have chosen the wrong path, and they will regret it because they don’t find happiness and satisfaction in the task they are currently doing, but after spending half a life there is no way back.
Therefore finding your strength and using it in a way that gains maximum advantage is very important to lead your path to success.
Take one example, if there is a person whose strength is creativity, then he must choose his career in the field of creativity, if he is an artist then he must choose a career option appropriate for them, if he is a writer then he should select a career in the writing field.
There is a reason why it is called your strength, if you don’t follow it then you will be weaker and demotivated your entire life.
Improving Your Weaknesses
You just shouldn’t stick to your strength or get relieved after finding your strength, you must find the areas of your weakness because you must fix it to embark on the road to success because your weakness could lift you down, it can also become the power to your opponent and may use it against you.
I think you all must have seen a superhero movie, at least one, in which there is a superhero and a supervillain, for defeating a supervillain our superhero finds out his weakness and attacks his weakness due to which the supervillain gets defeated.
Now the reason behind the defeat of the supervillain was his weakness, if he had improved his weakness then he couldn’t be destroyed.
Therefore improving your weakness is the vital thing an individual must do.
A perfect person is the one who has found his strength and overcome his weakness.
To be that person everyone must find their strength and weaknesses by self introspection and self-reflection, or they can seek feedback from others such as their friends or family.
After finding your strength, you must follow it to gain success in life, without following your strength there is nothing you can achieve more than sorrowful life and helplessness and hopelessness.
After finding your weakness you must improve it to decrease the chances for your opponent to beat you.
The thing is not everyone is perfect by birth but they can be if they master their strength and weakness.
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