Enhance your strengths or Improve your weaknesses?
By markmoney
@markmoney (2868)
Philippines
April 14, 2010 8:07pm CST
What do you think is better to do, to enhance our strengths or to improve our weaknesses? Enhancing your strengths which can mean you are going to master the skills that you are good at. While improving you skills which can mean you are going to study those things that you haven't know or skills that you are not good at. Which one should we focus on? For example, you are a good on writing compositions and you like creating a book but you are really poor in Math, are you going to study Math or you are just going to enhance your writing composition skills? Actually I have come up to this topic because I was able to watch an episode of Bro Bo Sanchez preaching, and he said we should not improve our weaknesses but just stick and enhance our strengths. He said that we have weaknesses for us to depend to others strengths. So if you have problem in Math, then you have to go to a Mathematician. But most Mathematicians weaknesses are their writing compositions because they like numbers and not letters. Actually I have somehow agree with his philosophy. How about you, what are your thoughts about this? Do we need to enhance our strengths or improve our weaknesses? I would be glad to hear from you. Have a nice day! Happy myLotting! 
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15 responses
@allknowing (135338)
• India
15 Apr 10
Whatever that is needed for our survival we should concentrate on be it strengths or weaknesses. Taking the example that you have given, to get promoted to the next class one needs to pass in all subjects and if you are weak in maths and have doubts if you will make it, surely you need to concentrate on getting atleast pass marks while the other subjects where you are already doing well can wait. But if you are good say in music but not so good in painting it is better that you concentrate on music and excel there and make that your career or whatever.
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@markmoney (2868)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
Hi allknowing! Yes, those necessary things are really needed to learn whether we like it or not. But a skill or talent is needed to enhance and concentrate with it coz it will be a career that you are going through. Thank you for your response. Happy myLotting!
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@picjim (3002)
• India
15 Apr 10
I'm all for working hard to remove or lessen our weaknesses but not at the loss of our strengths.Do the regular work to improve our strengths but don't ignore your weakness else they may become glaring one day.If one is weak in math then one has to make an extra effort to improve similarly if ones writing skills are not adequate one has to take extra care to improve them.Its best not to rest on our strengths but work on them every day as well as spare time and effort to reduce our weaklinks.
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@markmoney (2868)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
Hi picjim! Yes, we can use our spare time to also do an effort to improve our weaknesses. We must at least make those skills that we are poor at be at average levels. Thank you for your response. Happy myLotting!
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@Hatley (163776)
• Garden Grove, California
15 Apr 10
hi markmoney oh dear its getting late and my poor brain is tired
but i would much rather work on my talent in writing, than worry
that I cannot do algebra or trig or geometry. I can write but want
to be a much better writer to write work that will be published one
day. geometry will not help me but improving my writing will so I
am going with enhancing my writing skills and making some really special projects with that 
enhancement. 
enhancement. @markmoney (2868)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
Hi hatley! Yes, I agree with you, we should just focus and enhance the skills that we are good at because we have greater potentials to make a living out of it. In your case, since you have talent in writing, you should enhance it more and it will be possible that your work will be published in the future. More power and good luck! Thank you for your response and happy myLotting!
@jiraiyasanin (642)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
you know what i have in mind, both are important, we need to enhance our strength and improve our weaknesses so that we can achieve our goal to the fullest, if your good to some aspect we don't need to stay good only to that we still need to strengthen it and we must also pay attention to our weakness because if we do not we might fail because weakness can be use to weaken our strong part, hope you get me, just comment if you need much explanation about my idea good day my friend
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@markmoney (2868)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
Hi jirai! Yes you have a good thinking. Uhmm.. do you think our minds have that enough capacity to do both? Or is your point like this? Since you are already good in some aspect then you are just going to improve those aspects that you are not good at? Coz for example you are good in skill one and not good in skill two, are you going to do both, enhancing skill one and improving skill two? Well I think it will be hard and it will take time to do both. But if we can do that, then why not, right? Ok thank you for your response. Happy myLotting!
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@didi13 (2926)
• Romania
19 Jul 11
Everyone has faults and weaknesses, some more, others less. Should not be ashamed. You should not let other people you offend or humiliate you just because you're weak or sensitive ...
Try to combat weaknesses, having more confidence in yourself and your forces. Love you, especially given your due respect! And especially not to leave. Cowardice leads to regret ... If you do not act, if not enjoy, if you let your happiness without escape now made ??the most of it, if you follow your dreams, if you do not listen to consciousness, and especially if you do what your heart dictates when it's time and not later when you can not change anything, then you will regret that you did not have the courage to fight at least once for yourself!
Do not go listen to people mischievous! They can hurt, you can discourage, you can try to shatter dreams and hopes, you can prevent it before ... can this and much more ... But you can not rob the soul and dignity! Be above them! ...
@zandi458 (28102)
• Malaysia
15 Apr 10
I have always been weak in my maths and keep failing this subject when I was still in school. But it is compensated by my love for literal writing and reading has been my passion. I would not bother with what am not good at but will polish more on my writing as it is something that I like. That is why I have been glued to mylot for few years now as mylot has been my favorite playground to exhibit my thoughts and to learn from others the fine art of writing.
@dorannmwin (36392)
• United States
17 Apr 10
Well, the answer to this question as I see it really depends on where we are in our lives. When we are children and students, then we really need to work on improving our weaknesses because we need to at least have a working knowledge of many things in able to succeed. However, in the stage of life where we are adults and we are trying to make a living for ourselves, I feel like we need to be working on making those things that we are strong with as strong as is possible.
@sender621 (14894)
• United States
15 Apr 10
To enhance a strength is all well and good. True rewards will come when we improve our weaknesses. Theses are tasks that we strive for and the achievements are worth the efforts we put into it.
@fanficgirl28 (54)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
Hi!
For me, I'd first improve my weakness than enhance what I'm already good at. Though it's not like I'm gonna leave my skills unattended, just that I think it's better to improve and learn from our obstacles. We won't know what life would bring us. For me, it's better to be prepared and know at least a little bit about everything. Once I get overcome my weaknesses enhancing my skills would be easy. Hopes this help
@ada8may21 (2405)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
What I know and believe in. Turn your weaknesses into your strength. This is what we always do when we have our job interview. If the interviewee will asked about your weakness we always followed it up, that we done something to make it our strength. In life for me it should be also like this.
I dont think so that whatever my weakness, I'll just go to someone and be dependent on him/her. I dont want to be always dependent to someone just because I dont know how to or I am not good on it. So I dont believe it like that way.
@pearl_smith (41)
• Philippines
15 Apr 10
i think it is much better to enhance your strenghths because this way is easier and as you enhance your strengths your weaknesses will improve as well. with your strengths it is easy like in business you will work to your strengths but also your weakness will become stronger as well....
@cloud31 (5809)
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15 Apr 10
Hi mark!
Both are vital to make a better person of ourselves,However enhancing our strengths is beneficial once a person has already in that so called" management level or say maintaining a good habitual force,this is very useful when base on people with wide range of experiences and they need to strengthen their knowledge with their ability and expertise, while improving their skills in somewhat certain point to become outstanding in some of their weakness. In addition to this, most successful person usually enhancing their strengths and make use of it whilst improving their skills or not at all.In my point of view enhancing my strengths will lead out the best of me and once enhancement has reach his stability level,it already done something about the improvement of the skills.The more experience we had it provoke an improvement of our weaknesses.Happy myLotting!
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