Ep 38: When What You’re Best At Isn’t Your Primary Gift: How forced competence makes true success harder to discern
“All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the LORD.” - Proverbs 16:2
What if the thing everybody knows you for—the thing you’re exceptionally good at—isn’t actually centered in what most deeply motivates you?
I know this experience personally. I built a career, reputation, income, and leadership role around work I was highly competent at. While some parts of my work was very aligned with my primary motivational gift, significant parts of it required me to diminish that gift, center other gifts, and develop competence in ways that eventually became depleting.
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