Focus on perfecting your strengths over improving your weaknesses

[DONTRAY]

Greetings all. I’m quickly reading through The 4-Hour Work Week. I read across a part where it explains in my own words that once you start focusing more on your weaknesses your strengths become ineffective. I know some books are filled with BS. It got my attention since I’m exploring my strengths and weaknesses. In conclusion what’s your simple take on focusing on strengths and weaknesses.

 

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[Kevin88660]

Greetings all. I’m quickly reading through The 4-Hour Work Week. I read across a part where it explains in my own words that once you start focusing more on your weaknesses your strengths become ineffective. I know some books are filled with BS. It got my attention since I’m exploring my strengths and weaknesses. In conclusion what’s your simple take on focusing on strengths and weaknesses.

I think of focusing on one’s strength and managing one’s weakness.

Strength most of the time is not some magical genetic gift that people usually associated with. It is usually years of accumulated learning that give people a better starting point. If you have worked in an industry for five years as an employee surely if you start a business in the same field you have better experience, knowledge and personal network than someone who gets into the same field to chase a business trend.

Another type of strength is “path dependence”. With the exception of a few mad genius in the world, most successful people are not as versatile as what other people believe and they do their best when sticking to a certain playbook. If you read Mark Cuban’s business history he often identify a possible future trend first, build or invest in a business and grow it fast, then sell at the peak of the investment cycle when public interest come to the sector as the “big thing”. Whether the business is turning a profit or not is of little importance. This is how he earned his riches and this style also reflected in how he pick his investment in shark tank. It is part experience and part personality based.

Whatever you do there will always be competition, so focus on your strength makes sense.

Managing your weakness is common sense. Because whatever you do, even as an employee doing a project very often it requires more than one skill. There are things you hate that you cannot run away, or they will kill the whole thing.

 

[ShepardHumphries]

Greetings all. I’m quickly reading through The 4-Hour Work Week. I read across a part where it explains in my own words that once you start focusing more on your weaknesses your strengths become ineffective. I know some books are filled with BS. It got my attention since I’m exploring my strengths and weaknesses. In conclusion what’s your simple take on focusing on strengths and weaknesses.

All the above, and while managing one's time and leveraging. I start businesses and ventures and projects primarily to overcome weaknesses. I fail a bunch, which I view as an important part of the process.

I think that strengths are a great shorter-term goal for making money, then when you are comfortable; tackle something new! In the last two years I have barged forward in order to learn by:

• Starting a YouTube channel & producing 200+ videos: Shepard Thinks ...
• Writing and publishing a book on Amazon: Harsh Advice for the Unemployed Guy: Tough talk to help unemployed young men make something of themselves.: Humphries, Shepard, Read, Ashleigh: 9798601716727: Amazon.com: Books
• Failing at inventing a product and bringing it to market: Shepard's Tactical Finger Ring Search Light ~ Jackson Hole Shooting Experience
• Publishing another person's book: Larken Rose's 2018 Journal: Insights from a Voluntaryist thought leader (Larken's Journal): Rose, Larken, Voluntary, Openly, McCauley, Jake: 9798609453051: Amazon.com: Books
• Starting a radio show: https://soundcloud.com/openlyvoluntary%2Fsets%2Fthe-thinking-man-show View: https://soundcloud.com/openlyvoluntary/sets/the-thinking-man-show
  

I am still not "strong" in the skills or disciplines of any of the above, however I am now 99% better than the human population at all the above. I enjoy foci=suing on weaknesses more than strengths because strengths are boring. I have that luxury though because my "strength" business keeps the $ coming in while I play. lol