As Clint Eastwood said to Hal Holbrook in "Magnum Force," a man must know his limitations." I would add a man must also know his strengths.
If I recognize my strengths and limitations, I can provide myself as the best resource possible for helping achieve that which I undertake – I kid no one, least of all myself. I spend no time pretending or justifying or excusing myself. I know my strengths and capitalize on them, and fix my limitations.
When I understand my limitations I can act to complement them or minimize them. I clearly can focus on what I must do to become more complete and more able, and therefore of more value to those with whom I live and work.
I greatly admire those remarkable individuals who know their limitations, get to work on changing those things they can change, and become examples to everyone who knows them. |
