Getting Good at What You’re Bad At
What are you “bad” at?
Is it math, public speaking, writing?
While it’s true that we’ve each got strengths and weaknesses, we can come to see our weak areas as intellectual dead zones where growth is impossible. I’m prone to this belief myself, to be honest. I need periodic reality checks.
In a blog post chock full of useful productivity advice, tech entrepreneur Sam Altman reminds us of something we knew as kids: