When Strengths Become Weaknesses

Learning Where And When To Lean In Or Out

In Positive Psychology, there is a lot of talk about Leaning into your Strengths.

There is a lot of Value in this as well.

As a Society, we are generally taught to Focus on our Weaknesses and attempt to get them to a more “Desirable” Level.

In many ways this Societal Norm is actually Extremely Sick and Toxic, such as we see in Health and Fitness, and in other ways simply doesn’t work well, as we see with Skills.

On the other hand, we see that people who Lean into their Strengths tend to be Significantly Better than Peers, and in the long term their Weaknesses aren’t Relevant to their Success.

(PS — This is “Not” True when it comes to “Character” Weaknesses, and if you have these you “Must” Improve them for Success)

Plus, it is often “Significantly” Easier to get into Flow States, where we Feel our Best and Perform our Best, when we use our Strengths.

In general, we want to use our Strengths.

However, there is another Aspect to this to consider.

Sometimes, our Strengths can become Problematic in Certain Situations.