A person’s strength was always his weakness, and vice versa - Viet Thanh Nguyen
Above were the words by Viet Thanh Nguyen, in one of his novels titled "The Sympathizer". The quote implies that a person's strengths were once his weakness until he started working on improving on them.
Knowing one's strength helps him to be aware of the things that work out for him - the ways to approach, work effectively, and get a task done. While knowing one's weakness helps one in mitigating the effect of such and improving more on overcoming such inadequacies.
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One of my major strengths is my strong willpower. In other words, I would say that I am highly self-motivated. This is obvious in the way I carry out tasks. For instance, I work tirelessly and effectively on a task - without waiting for others, that I am highly motivated to do.
Just like the quote above, there was a time in my life when I lacked the motivation to get anything done. But now it has become a strength because over time, I have developed ways of dealing with it.
Secondly, I am detail-oriented. Before commencing anything I often tend to have enough (if not all) details about it - either by asking or making personal research. This not only helps me to have an overview of what the task is all about but also helps in preventing future disturbance - by going back to ask more questions, and unnecessary corrections. On the other hand, this might delay the time but I strongly believe that anything worth doing is worth doing well.
On the other hand, I am envious, and that's my greatest weakness. Don't get me wrong though; I am not saddened by peoples' progress or achievements but I get envious of the achievement itself; I love it when people around me succeed. However, their success motivates me to do more.
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How have both my strengths and weakness been useful to me?
The truth is, I am easily motivated by people's success. When that happens, with my strong willpower, I always achieve mine. This is the reason why I surround myself with highly-achieving persons, as friends - to get motivated by their success.
This is my entry to the Hive Learners Week22 Edition 2 community topic.
