Good strength vs Bad strength: Every strength is a weakness and every weakness is a strength.

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  • Good strength = Resilience

  • Bad strength = Stubbornness

  • Good strength = Constantly upgrading and changing the plan

  • Bad strength = Never giving up on the existing plan

  • Good strength = Have willpower to push back in the right places and get rest / relaxation in the right places

  • Bad strength = Will always do more

  • Good strength = "Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never--in nothing, great or small, large or petty--never give in, except to convictions of honour and good sense." Churchill 

  • Bad strength = Never give in ever

  • Good strength = Magnanimity

  • Bad strength = Vindictiveness 

  • Good strength = Admitting it when you are wrong

  • Bad strength = Fighting to be right

  • Good strength = Attaching your ego the trajectory of improvement

  • Bad strength = Attaching you rego to being right. 

  • Good strength = Knowing you don't need to be strong all the time 

  • Bad strength = Seeing not being strong all the time as 'weakness'