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Jocko Underground: Should You Improve Your Weakness? Or Capitalize on Your Strengths?

Jocko Podcast

Jocko DEFCOR Network

Management, History, Business

4.831.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Summary

Should You Improve Your Weakness? Or Capitalize on Your Strengths?

How to have hard / sensitive conversations with people.

How to build relationships with people who are at odds with each other.

Risking complacency with diffused / shared accountability.

How to raise driven, uncommon, happy, great young men.

How to motivate people with no monetary incentive.



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Transcript

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This is the Jocco Underground Podcast number 92.

0:04.0

Sitting here with Echo Charles.

0:06.0

Here's a common question for us and by us, I mean humans.

0:12.0

Should I focus on capitalizing on my strengths

0:15.0

or should I focus on improving my weaknesses?

0:19.0

Like I said, common question.

0:21.0

Actually, Echo Charles, you most recently asked me this common question.

0:24.0

Sure.

0:25.0

My answer is actually yes.

0:27.0

That's my answer.

0:28.0

To both.

0:29.0

Yeah.

0:30.0

But I would say have a bias of focusing time on strength.

0:39.0

So if you've got strength and weaknesses, which you do,

0:42.0

you should work on both.

0:43.0

You should bias towards working on your strengths in most cases

0:47.0

because, well for one thing, you have a compounding effect

0:52.0

when you're good at something.

0:53.0

It allows other opportunities, right?

0:55.0

Other things open up.

0:57.0

It allows you to do more.

0:59.0

Even that thing that you're good at, you can do it faster

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