STAY IN YOUR STRENGTH ZONE

I am going to make a statement that goes against what is been taught in school and almost everywhere for that matter. This is a more or less controversial statement and will probably leave most people scratching their head: in term of your skills, only focus on your strengths not your weaknesses. If you are weak on Maths and strong on literature would it not make sense to focus on literature as your strong subject? The result of focusing on your strongest skill is developing it and elevating yourself among the best in that area. If you focus on your weak subject, you will go from worse to bad which is only a slight improvement but not enough to impress anyone.

I am sure a lot of people reading this will disagree because they are not used to hearing something like this but, let me reassure you that this is actually the way things are supposed to be. Most people react with anger when they hear something that is against what they hold to be true, the fact that a statement has not been challenged for a long time does not make it true. You cannot be told to focus on your weakness at the expense of what comes naturally to you.

We are all different people with different set of skills, generally your strongest skill is what come easy to you or what you enjoy doing. The question you want to ask yourself before reacting on emotion is: what do you have to gain by focusing on your weakness or weak skill to the detriment of your strong point?  What is the benefit of working hard and for a long time for a small improvement on your weak point when you could be developing your strong point to be among the best?

Unfortunately, many people are frustrated and unfulfilled with the life they are leading because they have most of time taken the wrong advice of working on something that doesn’t come naturally to them. You have the case of multitude who are working jobs they don’t like because they have convince themselves that they cannot find jobs in their prefer area of expertise. Others will happily tell you that it is to late or they are too old to revive and follow their dream, even though achieving that goal would have made them better performer and happier. If you want to succeed in life, you have to identify your passion in life or your true calling and focus on it with every single fibber of your being so you can rise to be among the best your field.

You will not gain anything worthy of your time by spending a lot of time and energy on your weak skill. You were created with talent and, your objective is to discover what that is so you can develop it to lead a better life. When you are focusing on your natural ability you tend to excel, you feel happier and you make less effort compare to those who are striving in an area not natural to them. If you are working a job that you are passionate about, it ceases to be a job and become a labour of love. Stay in your strength zone so you can be counted among the best.

CHRISTIAN