List what you’re genuinely good at, then ask three people who know you. The overlap is gold.

REFLECTION

WHAT THIS MEANS

Your view of your own abilities has a predictable distortion: what comes easily feels unremarkable, so you discount exactly the things you are best at. Other people see the output without knowing what it cost you, which gives them a different error. The place the two accounts agree is the most reliable evidence available.

Write your own list first so you are not just absorbing theirs. Then put the question to three people who know you in different settings. Pay closest attention to anything that appears on their lists and not on yours, because that is what you have been overlooking.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

Which strength would three friends name that you would leave out?

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