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

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

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

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.

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

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.

From this point of view, to avoid your strengths and to focus on your weaknesses isn't a sign of diligent humility. It is almost irresponsible. By contrast the most responsible, the most challenging, and, in the sense of being true to yourself, the most honorable thing to do is face up to the strength potential inherent in your talents and then find ways to realize it.