Strengths and Weaknesses

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One of the subjects I've always been told to put a lot of thought into is my strengths and weaknesses. So, for this post, I'll go over one of each.

One of the strengths that I feel I have is my coachability. In other words, I believe I'm able to take advice and apply it to myself reasonably easily. I can only really credit all the years I've spent in Kung Fu to my devellopment of this particuliar strength. Having spent basically my entire life getting advice on how to improve upon myself has really stuck.

A weakness I see in myself is that I can sometimes get angry and stubborn with people . Especially after spending long periods of time with a certain person, it's inevitable that some friction will be created. However, I sometimes find myself getting more hostile than most in these situations. The reason I classify this as a weakness is that it can sometimes subdue or even nullify my coachability. For example, if I spend days on end with my sister, I can get irritable around her. Then, when we're training, even if she has a good tip to help me, I sometimes tell her off and ignore her advice. In my experience, the best solution for these types of situations is to take breaks from whoever I'm feeling irritated towards. Even though I'm always aware of this, sometimes it's difficult to take a break when we live together. I'm going to continue to work on my ability to be more rational and collected in these situations as much as I can.

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