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Work ON my weaknesses, or work AROUND them?

by pagemaker
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National League wants me to try my hardest to hit the ball. American lets a better batter take my place. Same professional level of play, two different approaches.

So if I know batting is a weakness - do I keep taking hitting lessons, or start searching for a good DH?

I have little desire to stay on top of the mundane, repetitive tasks that are so important to taking things to the next level. I love to create and even implement, but that's where the enthusiasm drops off. I always thought I'd get over this hump, but it's been 10 years now. Do I continue to focus on changing my ways, or just change the way I've been playing the game?
#weaknesses #work
  • Profile picture of the author Micah Medina
    Wait, are you a batter or a manager?
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    • Profile picture of the author pagemaker
      Originally Posted by Micah Medina View Post

      Wait, are you a batter or a manager?
      I'm the entire organization, Micah! From owner to bat boy.

      Basically, trying to decide if I should put more focus on following through with the stuff I don't enjoy, or if it's better to have someone else handle it.

      If I'm holding myself back - do I work on the cause or just remove myself from the equation and push forward?
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  • Profile picture of the author Odahh
    work on your strength until a weakness prevents progress ..then tend to the weakness until you can go back to improving your strength..

    honestly if you get thing to a good level and instead of pushing them higher you get more fun from starting something else and getting it to a good level .

    the option it to find a way to start new things that push up the productivity of the other things
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    • Profile picture of the author tobyjensen
      Originally Posted by Odahh View Post

      work on your strength until a weakness prevents progress ..then tend to the weakness until you can go back to improving your strength..

      honestly if you get thing to a good level and instead of pushing them higher you get more fun from starting something else and getting it to a good level .

      the option it to find a way to start new things that push up the productivity of the other things
      Well, said. Working to improve your strengths produces greater results faster. Then at a certain point you can't go any further until you improve your weaknesses. Any strength over extended may become a weakness. Look at the four areas of life: physical, social, spiritual (emotional), and intellectual. How long can you extend one of the four before it begins to pull on the other three?

      Then we begin adaptability to the other area of life. For example if you want to be incredible in the physical world it doesn't take too long before Olympic athletes begin doing Zen type visualizations moving them into the spiritual areas. If they keep going the become as adept spiritually as they are physically. The eventually become fluid among the four areas of life achieving mastery. It is also interesting that no one is a master of all four areas at the exact same time.

      Configured with time sensitive to priorities. How long will it take you to achieve what you want? If this is the first area of the four areas of life you pretty much have to do it if you want to be successful. But as you move to life mastery with the other three areas, well, not everyone is as interested anymore. Once you achieve success is it still worth it to go for life mastery? But if many other people do it then you don't have much of a choice to stay on top. Like when the four minute mile was first broken. Then everyone else pretty much had to do it.

      The three legs of a successful business: best product, best marketing, best money management always produce a successful company. What's interesting is that no one at Google, or Harvard, or Facebook, or DataXu or Emerge Digital Group or New York or Hong Kong or anywhere is a master of all three. Often The best of the best are only a master of one.

      Turning weaknesses into strengths takes a longer time than developing strengths. Usually it's only after someone is a little older and has a lot of money and/or free time that they begin contemplating the meaning of life. Then they begin to look to complete actualization as an individual and then work on their weaknesses. Along the way most people only work on their weaknesses if they have too.
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      Toby Jensen - Invest in what works this time

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  • Profile picture of the author Micah Medina
    Use your strengths to convince someone else to cover for your weaknesses.
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  • Profile picture of the author DrMoney
    My opinion, don't try to reinvent the wheel.

    Rather than work on your weaknesses, hire someone or partner with someone who is good at taking over your weaknesses.

    Being your own boss you won't be good at everything, but you can always have someone else who is
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