Should You Work on Your Strengths or Fix Your Weaknesses?
As human beings, it is easy for us to focus on what is going wrong, as our brains are wired with negativity bias. Negativity bias makes us subconsciously focus on and prioritize negative information, therefore, we tend to pay more attention to our weaknesses.
The power of nurturing our strengths
In a Harvard Business Review, Jessica Greene wrote that we should work on our strengths but not weaknesses. When we exercise our strengths, we become immersed in the process. We improve more efficiently as people’s greatest room for growth is in the areas of their most remarkable talents. Psychologists have also found that people who use their strengths at work are happier and more satisfied with their lives.
So, what to do with our weaknesses?
For me, I choose to downplay my weaknesses. I write occasionally, but I am not particularly funny in my writing. I can ignore this weakness directly. I don’t have to be comedic between the lines. According to Scott H. Young in his blogpost:
