Strenghts Vs Weaknesses |
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Jun 12 2012, 09:56 AM |
All our lives we have been educated and sometimes forced to overcome our weak points and get better at some things. There's an American dude, who's living here in Romania, old friend of mine and he aims to start a project based on career re-orientation for young people working in environments not allowing them to express their full potential, based on their real strengths and talents.
In a nutshell, his concept is based on the fact that in our society, folks are always forced to work on their weak points and in this way, they totally neglect their strong ones, ending up doing things which maybe they were not meant for, thus never achieving their full potential as human beings and of course, not being happy. He is very fond of artists and he likes to talk to a lot of us in some of the bands here, as he thinks we are a good inspiration source for the people he aims to help. Now, I took a test based on answering 180 questions, each of them having 20 seconds to be answered - this lead to discovering my top 5 strengths: Cosmin's Top 5 Strengths That doesn't mean that others not present, but these 5 are supposed to define you in a greater amount than any other of a total of 34. I don't know how much I can believe these but, what I can tell you is that I was very honest with my answers in the test - for more insight, visit www.strengthsfinder.com If i am correct, I remember a little movie with Steve Vai (posted here on GMC) underlining that we should work on developing our strong points not our weak ones as players and I think that now I understand what he meant and I can agree. What do you guys think about strengths vs weaknesses? Cosmin This post has been edited by Cosmin Lupu: Jun 12 2012, 10:13 AM |
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Jun 13 2012, 02:21 PM |
I agree with Nihilist, Christian and the rest of those guys - there's a difference between ignoring your weaknesses and focusing on what you are a bit better at, not because you've not practiced anything else, but because you just 'get it' more or it works better for you.
I'm sure those players with small fingers didn't have the easiest time when learning (I'm thinking along the lines of Jess Lewis here), and had they ignored doing stretches and practicing relatively stretchy licks (i.e. one of their weaknesses), they wouldn't be as good as they are now. Sure, these players wouldn't then decide to base their technique around super-stretchy licks, but would use what they are better at to make more progress. A little effort can turn a weakness into something manageable, and in some cases, a strength (as perhaps you didn't understand a part of that area properly, and all it took was a good explanation/the right exercise). I understand what's being said, being able to get more out of an apparent strength in a shorter amount of time than an apparent weakness, but don't be so quick to shun that weakness, it may just need the right info. to push it past its tipping point. -------------------- Ibanez 2550E
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