Make a list of your strengths and develop them.

In today’s The Daily Drucker entry, entitled “Feedback: Key to Continuous Learning” Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello cite the importance of knowing one’s strengths, and to know what one cannot do.

If you have a hard time with this, ask your friends, parents, teachers, managers, or assistants.

Start writing them down like your obituary, then live up to them, for yourself and others.

Patience and confidence in the face of adversity is good.

The ability to think clearly, systematically, and creatively.

An ability to use multiple mental models.

Speed reading.

Feedback is another key to continuous learning.

Reader, get feedback on your work. Even you, a societal “misfit,” can make great work.

What is best? Nobody knows. Every human being is a walking, talking contradiction.

But we have figured out a strategy that works, if only we choose to apply it.

ACTION POINT: Make a list of your strengths and develop them.