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The irony is that the person not taking risks feels the same amount of fear as the person who regularly takes risks.
-- Peter McWilliams
 

 

Monday, December 29, 2025

Overcoming weakness

It’s not pleasant to experience your weakness. Yet you must do so in order to grow stronger.

Building muscle mass requires sore muscles. Learning new material requires admitting and embracing what you don’t already know.

By accepting a particular weakness you position yourself to transcend it. Living with the reality of that weakness gives you a visceral understanding of how to overcome it.

Appreciate weakness for the opportunity it represents. Make use of your strengths to improve in the areas where you are weak.

In overcoming weakness you not only eliminate the weakness by replacing it with strength. You also make your other strengths more useful.

Rather than allowing weakness to hold you back, recognize it and lean into it. Then you can transform it into added strength.

— Ralph Marston

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