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Suffer With Your Weakness?

Here’s how to overcome it.

Ron Markley
2 min readNov 11, 2024
Photo by Sonnie Hiles on Unsplash

Have you struggled with your weaknesses?

Do you feel like you have to do something to eliminate them?

I struggle with my weaknesses too.

I have a lot of them.

My weakness is bad, but how I treat it is the worst.

This is one of my weaknesses.

It’s a simple thing that is super easy for most people.

My weakness isn’t green veggies.

It’s paperwork.

I hate myself while doing paperwork. My brain is ready to explode.

I used to believe the best way to deal with weakness was to try to beat it.

But the more I tried, The more I disconnected from myself.

I felt bad about the result.

I never felt pleasant while trying to overcome it.

Then I realized weakness isn’t the problem.

How we deal with it is the problem.

Ray Dalio gives wisdom on how to deal with weakness.

Here is what he wrote in his book Principles: Life and Work:

“When encountering your weaknesses you have four choices:

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Ron Markley
Ron Markley

Written by Ron Markley

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