Only Compare You To You
Guideline 9
We all have personal strengths and weaknesses, things we are good at and things we aren’t. The idea is to expand on your strengths as deeply as possible, and button up any weaknesses that may be related or beneficial to that strength or where you want to go. We will take the design profession as an example; as a designer, you may enjoy the design part of the process, getting your hands dirty and into the files working on stuff, making moodboards, doing the research and so forth. But also, as a designer, you need to be able to speak with clients and sell your work. It doesn’t matter how technically skilled you are, if you cannot explain your work and decisions with a bit of confidence and even authority, your pretty much dead in the water (This applies to many other professions and areas of life as well) and your clients and colleagues will likely not have too much confidence in you in return.
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
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You may not be so naturally skilled with the gift of gab, but this soft skill relates directly to your work and what you want within your profession in design. So, to patch up this weakness, you can read some books on