Identify — and Develop — Your Natural Strengths

Identify — and Develop — Your Natural Strengths

Strategies for cultivating the skills that come easily to you, rather than focusing on the ones that don’t.

June 19, 2024

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  • When we think of self-improvement, we tend to focus on our weaknesses. But that means we often underestimate our strengths — or even don’t recognize them at all. In this article, the author explains why we’ve developed this focus on weakness, and she then lays out a program for identifying and developing our strengths, with a particular focus on natural abilities that we might take for granted and therefore overlook.

    “What is your biggest weakness?”


    • Sanyin Siang is a CEO mentor and a professor at Duke University, where she leads the Coach K Leadership & Ethics Center at the Fuqua School of Business.

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