Life more often teaches us how to perfect our weaknesses than how to develop our strengths.
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About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Life often teaches fixing weaknesses rather than building strengths.
- In plain terms
- Life teaches us to fix weaknesses more than build strengths.
- What can you take from it?
- Life focuses on survival over growth.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why focus on weaknesses?
- What did life teach you?
Another view
Strengths also grow through life challenges.
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