Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Tasks naturally find their way to people who are capable of handling them.
- In plain terms
- If you can do a job, it will likely come to you.
- What can you take from it?
- Competence attracts responsibility.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What responsibilities do you shoulder?
- Are you taking on too much?
Another view
It can lead to burnout if capacity is ignored.
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