Augment Your Strengths and Mitigate Your Weaknesses

Hola guys (and gals as well). Firstly, give a pat at your back. Done? Cool. I really salute and revere all you patriots here. Visiting this site religiously is no child’s play. You are a special animal.

Now, let us get to business. It is a known fact that one should know about his strengths and weaknesses in and out. Seldom will you encounter an interview without the interviewer asking you this question. There is a self-appraisal test in the psychological testing in which it is required that you write about your strong and weak points. Before going ahead, one must understand that we are all very different like our fingerprints. Therefore, finding your strengths and weakness is a painstaking task.

We all have different talents and specialties, instead of trying your hands at everything, master one thing.  It is a famous saying that, avoid being “JACK OF ALL TRADES AND MASTER OF NONE”. While it is required that you have all attributes of an officer in adequate amounts, there has to be something in you that makes you stand out. Hence, the best way to do this is by mastering your area of interest, be it reading about a particular thing, your corporeal abilities or anything else. Cannot believe me? (Good going 😉 )

Well there was a guy who had extensive and fulsome knowledge about WARS from the earliest of battles to the Kargil, He knew almost everything. To his amazement, the interviewer found this quite interesting and quizzed him exclusively about WARS for 75% of his interview. He is currently at the rank of a captain in the Indian army.

CRUX:- Develop the area of your interest/ liking to a level which is extraordinary and unprecedented.

The thing we can surely tell about humans is that they are ‘FALLIBLE’. We are not SUPERMAN or HANUMAN but HUMAN.

Therefore, to say that having weaknesses is not at all bad, it is a key characteristic of human nature. However, do we know our real weaknesses? Do we care about what others feel about us? Have we ever tried to burgeon into a better person? If not, then start today. Some people say that do not reveal too many weaknesses do not divulge any grave flaws in your personality. However, I beg to differ, we are not National Award Winning actors who can lie through their hat without any hesitation. Therefore, it is better to identify your weak points and start working on them. Your weaknesses may be generic like having little general knowledge, unpolished communication skills, nervousness etc. On the other hand, you can have some serious weaknesses like over aggressive nature, egoism, being delinquent, negative mindedness.

The best way to know your weaknesses is to talk to the people who understand you and are close to you. One can ask his friends, parents, teachers for a genuine opinion about oneself.  After coming to know your shortcomings, go about correcting them. The reason I am stressing this is that it is ridiculous to think that we can hide our shortcomings just by not revealing them in your interview. The assessors know your weaknesses, how much you know about them.

I have a firm believe that we all are more than capable of achieving our dream. We all have adequate OLQs imbued in us. It is just a matter of polishing and fine-tuning our skills. We shall overcome some day.

With this, I would like to take leave for today. We will talk about this subject in greater length in my subsequent articles.