In Development  a web journal

While the habit in our culture is to pair Strengths with “Weaknesses,” this is a false bifurcation.

Here’s an alternative structure that I have found to be more helpful to clients in their development:

• Potential: Native capability in that can be developed — and is often eclipsed by interference in the external environment, or within one’s own self
• Strength: Capability that you deploy competently to masterfully
• Limitation: Capability that you have in short supply and for which you may need additional development or assistance
• Absence: Capability that you do not have — and do not have to feel bad about! Not everyone can sing, fix cars, or calculate the hypotenuse of … (What is a hypotenuse any way?!) When you don’t have the capability — but NEED it, your job is to find it in someone else and then artfully incorporate it into your life\work.
• Weakness: A capability you PRETEND to have (and, of course, fail to deliver on)

Fulfilling your potential derives from cultivating strengths, eliminating or overcoming interference, dealing effectively with limitations and absences, and eliminating weaknesses.