If your senses are numbed with delusion and denial, you will stop looking for these true strengths and wind up living a second-rate version of someone's life rather than a worldclass version of your own

Your weaknesses will never develop, while your strengths will develop infinitely.

At an early age, you started hearing it: It's a virtue to be "well-rounded." ... They might as well have said : Become as dull as you possibly can be.

Back in the 1930s, Carl Jung, the eminent thinker and psychologist, put it this way: Criticism has 'the power to do good when there is something that must be destroyed, dissolved or reduced, but [it is] capable only of harm when there is something to be built.

What leaders have in common is that each really knows their strengths, has developed their strengths, and can call on the right strength at the right time.

Relationships help us to define who we are and what we can become. Most of us can trace our successes to pivotal relationships.

Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance.