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The Anatomy of a Strength
What is a strength? The book Now, Discover Your Strengths describes it as “consistent near perfect performance in an activity.” So, to be able to indentify something as a strength in our life, we must be able to do it consistently. This may involve some honest self-examination. What are we really good at? You may occasionally be able to throw a football as far as Peyton Manning, but we couldn’t call this a strength unless we were able to do it time and time again.
Secondly, we need to realize that we do not have to have strength in every aspect of what we do to be successful. For instance, if you were given an AMRAP WOD of 20 minutes with a 400m run, five muscle ups, and ten 225# deadlifts, what would your reaction be? Most would be able to identify something that they could excel at, with something else in that workout that may not typically be a strength for them. What to do? You simply do the best you can with the hand you are dealt. An excellent performer does not necessarily have to be the most well rounded. Simply the most adaptable.
Finally, you excel at your strengths by maximizing them, not by fixing your weaknesses. Keep in mind, this does not say to ignore your weaknesses. You certainly must be aware of them, and work on them, to the point that they do not undermine our strengths any longer. Once your weakness reaches an acceptable level, you may then turn your attention to honing and perfecting what you can perform most consistently.
Whatever we are doing in life, we want to capitalize on our strengths, whatever they may be, and manage our weaknesses, whatever they may be.