You can turn your skills - learn how to do something
You can turn you knowledge - goods knowledge, store place knowledge
But you can't turn your talents - empathetic, strategist, competitor, analytical.
So learn what talents make you feel strong and what weakens you and then learn how you can leverage the best of them to work in your favor. Learn how to administrate you weaknesses so your strengths overshadow them and make them insignificant.
You can teach man a new skill, man can gain more knowledge but it isn't inherent to take the empathy out of man or tell the staunch competitor that it's ok if you come in the top 5 of 100,000 when all they want to do is win. Our talents are hard wired; they are not based on our sex or our age. If you are strongly competing at 8 you will be strongly competing at 80. They are the things that make up our character and can't be removed. We can loose the quality to achieve a skill and we can forget knowledge but we can't stop be analytical or a good organizer or man who needs connectedness.
The degree to which you can make changes in the areas of your skills and knowledge will depend on what talents they are linked to. If you are a fierce competitor you will undoubtedly dispell knowledge about how to get the edge over an additional one competitor, it will be fun to learn and you will learn swiftly retaining the knowledge easily. You may not understand why man who is strong in the relating talent or the empathetic talent is having trouble tantalizing the competitor type knowledge because you are not so strong in the empathetic or relater talent and visa versa. This is not to say that those who are strong competitors are not empathetic as well, it just demonstrates that expansion linked to a power is easier to achieve than expansion linked to a weakness.
Our fastest and most sustainable changes are made when they are applied to our strongest talents. Incremental changes can occur when you are trying to improve the things that are our weakest talents but they take more attempt and more energy.
Talents that frustrate or annoy or bore you are called your weaknesses. Tasks that call on things that weaken you are best avoided and more time is best spent on tasks that enliven you, uplift you, excite you, which you love to do. That is where you will achieve exponential growth.
Accepting your strengths and finding ways to use them more in your life is what will help you to achieve your top inherent and bring you the most joy. A line from a paramount prayer says "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot turn and the courage to turn the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference." - Reinhold Niebuhr
Have fun addition your strengths.
