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This article is based on the following book:
Soar With Your Strengths
By Donald O. Clifton and Paula Nelson
Dell Publishing, 1995
ISBN 044050564X
193 pages

The Big Idea

You were probably taught at a very early age that it is important to focus your energy on overcoming your weaknesses. During high school, if you had a natural flair for language, but could not cope with simple math problems, you would have been given remedial classes in math. Your strength in language would have been ignored - after all, you're good at it already. Why practice something you're already strong at?

Authors Donald Clifton and Paula Nelson urge you to fix this unreasonable obsession on overcoming weaknesses and instead succeed in life by harnessing what you already do best.

Chapter 1 - Let's Fix What's Wrong: A National Obsession

Fix What's Wrong and Let the Strengths Take Care of Themselves

Nowadays, everyone seems to follow an unwritten rule demanding that all efforts should be focused on improving something that is wrong. As a result, strengths are sometimes ignored and put aside for later. After all, why fix something that isn't broken?

This, however, hinders success. Unfortunately, this rule is practiced everywhere from schools, to family members, and corporations. How often have you witnessed managers who spend the majority of their day working with the weakest employees? Or parents who reprimand their child for a low grade in mathematics, even if the kid aced all language and history subjects?

Why is this rule followed blindly by everyone? To understand this better, below are some myths created by society.

The Four Myths

Myth # 1: Fixing Weaknesses Will Make Everything All Right

If you find it hard to write, you can focus on your weakness and correct all grammatical errors and mistakes in spelling and syntax. But this does not guarantee that you will one day write a bestseller. Fixing your weaknesses will only make you average - not exceptional.

Myth # 2: Let the Strengths Take Care of Themselves

Why do people often take their strengths for granted? Because many believe that to be well-rounded, you have to be good at everything. As a result, people spend all their time practicing their weaknesses and ignoring their strengths without realizing that they are taking for granted the greatest area for potential growth and success.

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