Stop Focusing on Your Strengths
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HBR IdeaCast
SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: Well and one of the challenges that you have pointed out with that approach is that it could give people a false sense of competence, or a false belief in their skills, if you only focus on their strengths. So most people are good at the things they enjoy, and they enjoy the things they’re good at. SARAH GREEN CARMICHAEL: Well I want to ask you a little bit about what happens when you focus on those weaknesses but first, I want to ask, because I think so many weaknesses are overdeveloped strengths, what happens when you focus on your strengths too much and you overdevelop them?