Flipside of My Talents
I had intended the book to end here, but there is one more subject that, in all honesty, I have gone backward and forward in my mind about for ages as to whether I should even include it or not. Why the uncertainty? Well, because this final topic is, philosophically speaking, a huge leap from the rest of this work. I have, for 11 chapters, been on at you—with no little vociferation—about the importance of a positive, bee-glasses approach to work. Focus on the affirmative, I have said. Search out for talent, acknowledge it, and give it a space, I pleaded. Don’t waste time on weaknesses, I argued—they will never morph into strengths, anyway. This polestar remains true and of huge importance, but it would be remiss ...
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