Knowing our own strengths and weaknesses

Summary

• If you dont know your weaknesses probably you are suffering under a delusion that you dont have any

Details

• Knowing what we dont know is necessary in order to learn and fill in the gaps

References

• Clear Thinking - Turning Ordinary Moments into Extraordinary Results - Shane Parrish

Quotes

self-knowledge is about knowing your own strengths and weaknesses. You must know what you can do and what you can’t; your powers and limitations, your strengths and vulnerabilities, what’s in your control and what isn’t. You know what you know, and what you don’t know. And you know, moreover, that you have cognitive blind spots—that there are things you don’t know, and you don’t know you don’t know them—what Donald Rumsfeld famously called “unknown unknowns.” If you want to better understand your level of self-knowledge, ask
yourself how many times a day you utter the phrase “I don’t know.” If you never say, “I don’t know,” you’re probably dismissing things that surprise you or explaining away outcomes instead of understanding them.

Related

• Keep battling weaknesses like a musician practising
• Focus on strengths rather than remediate weaknesses
• We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them - Albert Einstein