Our Strengths and Weaknesses are Interconnected.

I recently wrote about how the things we think of as our weaknesses might actually turn out to be our biggest strengths. For example: I have always collected books. As a reader, I not only buy books I’ll read right now. I also have books that are for the future, so to speak.

If I am interested in one topic, I will have not one, but multiple books about it. I used to feel a little ashamed of this insatiable book collecting. I felt like I was a magpie always getting attracted to the next...