The Big Idea
You were probably taught at a very early age that it is important to focus your energy on overcoming your weaknesses. During high school, if you had a natural flair for language, but could not cope with simple math problems, you would have been given remedial classes in math. Your strength in language would have been ignored - after all, you're good at it already. Why practice something you're already strong at?

Authors Donald Clifton and Paula Nelson urge you to fix this unreasonable obsession on overcoming weaknesses and instead succeed in life by harnessing what you already do best.