Amplifying Strengths can be More Productive than Improving Weaknesses

focusing on what you're intrinsically good at, and improving on these strengths, can be more productive than trying to find all the "weaknesses", and "fixing" them
- yes, you should Strive to be Well Rounded, but after reaching a baseline level (no "truly bad areas") it might make sense to focus on improving what you're great at
this is another example how Following Genuine Interests Forms Positive Feedback Loops, and also ties into the advice to Play Your Own Games

(...) Joy Ebertz says ↗:

One piece of advice I got at some point was to amplify my strengths. All of us have strengths and weaknesses and we spend a lot of time talking about "areas of improvement." It can be easy to feel like the best way to advance is to eliminate all of those. However, it can require a lot of work and energy to barely move the needle if it's truly an area we're weak in. Obviously, you still want to make sure you don't have any truly bad areas, but assuming you've gotten that, instead focus on amplifying your strengths. How can you turn something you're good at into your superpower?

I've personally found this to be true in a variety of disciplines. While it's really difficult to measure programmer effectiveness in anything resembling an objective manner, this isn't true of some things I've done, like competitive video games (...), the thing that took me from being a pretty decent player to a very good player was abandoning practicing things I wasn't particularly good at and focusing on increasing the edge I had over everybody else at the few things I was unusually good at
— What to learn ↗ - Dan Luu