An introspective inventory can really point out what you need to work on for real success. If you read that and immediately thought of looking at your shortcomings, you’ve been robbing yourself of what it takes to grow by only working on not failing. Not failing is not even remotely synonymous with reaching success. Taking an introspective inventory of what you’re weak at and leveraging your time to cultivate these skills will help you not become a liability. Taking an introspective inventory of what makes you excel and leveraging your time to cultivate these skills will help make you an asset. Working on and really getting to the next level of what fuels your passions or highlights your genius is the only way to thrive. Don’t get me wrong. It’s important to know your weaknesses so you can set things in place to prevent you from failing but mitigating a weak point to ‘status quo’ is absolutely good enough, if you have the ability to be an absolute rockstar somewhere else. Do you think we should try to excel in every aspect of every thing we do or focus on being an extremely good performer at a few things and just ok at everything else? What would you look for when developing yourself?Someone in your team? Someone who works for you? Is it fair to ask for pure excellence in ourselves and others or are disproportionate levels of genius what we need for the win?