In general, do you...

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use your strengths to your advantage and further cultivate them or pay more attention to getting rid of (or making less noticeable) your weaknesses to create a more well-rounded person?

Truthfully, I was asking this question for video game purposes (like if a person has insanely high attack power, but really sucky defense, or vice versa), but this has real-life applications to it as well.

Let's just pretend that this is a completely either-or question and that there is no middle ground here.

Improving my already great strengths 13
Improving my weaknesses by making them less "weak" 19
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  • dom180
    10 years ago

    In terms of life, I try as much as possible to eliminate my weaknesses because life is a long game and I feel like it pays to be well rounded more than it pays to have a small number of extreme strengths.

    In terms of sport, video games, artistic pursuits etc. I play to my strengths when it's possible but I still place a greater emphasis on eliminating weaknesses. There are many negatives to focusing on strengths alone - if you have too many weaknesses eventually you'll come across an opponent who can exploit them. In a personal sense, you begin to feel bored by what you're doing. Once I get my weaknesses above a level I'm comfortable with, only then do I focus on improving strengths.

    EDIT: It changes when I'm part of a team, though. In a team I'm more willing to focus on perfecting strengths and let the rest of the team absorb my weaknesses with their own strengths.

    Interesting question, by the way :)

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  • [Old Memory]
    10 years ago

    Neither, it takes the fun out of life.

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  • GuessWho
    10 years ago

    IRL: I have no weaknesses, so I work on making my strengths better.

    Games: I usually upgrade everything evenly, except if I think I don't need something.

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  • shuggy-chan
    10 years ago

    Well too that I'd need to develop a weakness first

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