-Karthik Gurumurthy
Weak managers complain about what they don’t have: not enough money, not enough people, too many limits. Great leaders look at the same situation and ask a different question: “What can we do with what we already have?” They see chances where others only see problems.
The same idea applies to each of us. We often spend too much time worrying about what we’re bad at, or comparing ourselves to other people. We look at someone else’s strengths and feel like we’re falling behind. But that only drains our energy and keeps us stuck.
Try shifting your focus. Figure out what you’re naturally good at and what you truly love doing. Those are your real strengths. When you build on them, they multiply your results and take you further than you ever could by fixing every weakness. And success starts to look like something that fits you, not something borrowed from someone else.
Think of a bird stuck in a running race on the ground. Its wings would feel heavy and useless, just slowing it down. It might even wish it didn’t have them. But the moment it realizes it was made to fly, those same wings become its greatest gift.
Your strengths are like those wings. If you keep trying to win someone else’s race, they may feel like a burden. But when you find where you’re meant to be, you’ll discover they were made to lift you higher.
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