My wife and I had a parent teacher conference recently regarding our 11 year old son. The report card was pretty good, but he scored much better in math than he did in writing. On the way home my wife and I discussed his grades and how he could help in improve in his weakest areas.

Having thought recently about this  “how to achieve greatness in your job” question  it occurred to me that my wife and I have things backwards. Wouldn’t it make more sense (and be more a positive experience for him) to focus on trying to go from a B to and A rather than a C to a B?

We live in a society that tends to get more spun up about the need for everyone to not have weaknesses rather than the need to be great.

Sure, acknowledge your weaknesses, but don’t put all your energy into them. After all nobody cares if Tiger Woods is a lousy bowler.  I guarantee he doesn’t.