Rendalls article talks about how everybody has specific character traits which all have an upside and a downside to them. He says people think of the two sides as strengths and weaknesses within the individuals’ character. The idea is that some traits have certain traits that generally go along with the pairs of traits to be more specific. For instance creativity and being unorganized go together. He goes on further to explain how we can better ourselves in different ways, a few of them being to grow our strengths, to get rid of our weaknesses, or to do both at the same time. He talks about how each has its drawbacks. Also he goes on to say that our weaknesses actually are good because they are what make our strengths exist he says you can’t have one without the other. He ultimately explains that for us to be the best we can be we need to stop trying to get rid of our weaknesses and just play our strengths. We need to put ourselves in situations where our weaknesses are not going to hinder our strengths for instance if you don’t work well with others find a job where you don’t have to. He says that if we don’t like doing something because we suck at it do something else. He says you find success when you find the right fit.
I think that Rendalls 9 nine suggestions are valid. I believe that many of these things are things that most people kind of already inherently knew. Some of them are obvious common sense things and others are good points that make sense and make you think “well duh”. The 9 suggestions were.
1. What’s your problem should you fix weaknesses build on strengths or do both?
2. What’s my problem? (Apparent flaws are clues to your true stregths.
3. Flawless: there is nothing wrong with you.
4. Forget it don’t try to fix your weaknesses.
5. Foundation: build on your strengths
6. Focus you can’t do both.
7. Fit: find the right spot.
8. Freak: the power of uniqueness.
9. Freak Factory: putting your quirks to work.
I think that his suggestions are valid because they make sense to me. I have tried to fix my weaknesses and it has never worked and when I focus at what I like and what I am good at my strengths just get stronger.
I think that I am already implementing a lot of these suggestions into my life but this has definitely made it clearer for me and It enforces my thinking about what I am doing with my life and I think these suggestions will help me.
Of the 9 suggestions I think the 3 that most stood out to me were:
1. Forget it don’t try to fix your weaknesses
2. Fit: find the right spot.
3. Freak factory: putting your quirks to work.
For the first suggestion I can implement this in my life by realizing that I don’t work well with a lot of distractions and I am not good at writing or math or science but this leads me to realize that I work really well in a computer lab when there is some kind of flat white noise and I am a great artist. So now I draw using a tablet in computer labs with Photoshop and I am pursuing my artistic talents in a field where I can put them to good use. This also covers the second suggestion. For the third suggestions I can pretty much just try and do the things he lists in that part. I can avoid things I don’t like and try to increase my energy efficiency also I can surround myself with people that are strong where I am weak, which I think I have always subconsciously done.
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