It is important for a person to know his or her strengths. Of course, everyone is different and all people have different skill sets. All individuals differ from everyone else in their talents. We all have a unique set of knowledge.
Understanding your skills, knowing your talents, and building your knowledge are all keys to success and satisfaction. Just because you are very interested in one thing, your interest alone will not make you great at that activity. I always liked sports but I was never really good at any of them. It was not until I understood that playing sports was not my strength that I enjoyed playing them.
Consider the amount of practice time that goes into making a high school or college sports team. Is all of that time really worth it for the individual? Maybe. On the other hand, if that same individual really understood what his or her strength was and spent the same amount of time developing it as practicing that sport, what would be the outcome.
One of the most important kind of coaching a person can get is the assistance in understanding their strengths and how to use them. Most people have several strengths and should be able to find more than one that they really like.
1 comment:
Very True.
Finding your strengths is one of the very first things a person needs to do if they want to succeed.
Before that is Knowing what You Want. Knowing What you want ties in with your passions, desires, interests.
If your starting a business, its based on a passion but isn't backed up by a strength you should do some more studying into what could be a better opportunity.
I'm not saying you can't be successful at that. With self discipline anything is possible but why make it any harder than you have to.
Curt
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