If You Don't Do This You Are Doomed To Mediocrity - by James Delrojo

If You Don't Do This You Are Doomed To Mediocrity - by James Delrojo: "There are many things that successful people do differently from those who don't become successful. Some of these make a great difference to your outcomes while others are not so important. One of the most important is how you handle your strengths and weaknesses.

Everybody has strengths and everybody has weaknesses or limitations. It has been the trend for quite a few years now to encourage people to work on their weaknesses so that they can improve themselves. It turns out though that this is a very bad strategy and makes it a lot harder for people to become successful.

There are two major problems with working on your weaknesses. The first is that it tends to take a lot of time to change weaknesses and the results are typically unsuccessful. Secondly, the time and energy you spend trying to change a weakness is far better spent capitalizing on your strengths.

Successful people tend not to spend time trying to change a weakness. They make sure that they know, admit and accept their weaknesses and limitations. Rather than wasting time trying to change them they adopt the strategy of risk managing them."