Bob Moesta: belief

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…And what I love is this story of your career. It is like here's journey and there's a bit of conflict you want, here's the thing, I realize and has changed everything. And then because of that, and it may be hard to be like I don't have this big old dramatic thing, but I feel like going through this process you've been describing of figuring out what energizes you, figuring out where you want to need to go and want to go, that's the thing you could have as a part of this story. And then now that's why I want to work here. One of the things that I've realized is strength finders is one of those things where, so one of the things I suck at is harmony and the strength fighters is helping people get along and everybody get along because part of me is I'm a really good innovator because I believe that innovation or product is a conflict sport. It's where you have to have arguments in order to be better. And every time you have an argument it gets better. And the moment that they try to make me better at harmony, the reality is you actually strip away my superpower of actually being able to innovate. And so this whole notion is the things I suck at. My business partner is great at harmony, he actually hates conflict, but the fact is he and I can have conflict and the reality is we're all better off, but he's the one who actually keeps everybody in the company really harmonized. And my thing is I'm seen as the agitator, but the reality is we have a role and it makes us each have our superpowers and lets us use this as opposed to making me normalized by improving my weakness actually ruins my superpower. And so it's that kind of thinking. Yeah, I'm a huge advocate of strengths finders and just this idea of not trying to solve your weaknesses and lower focusing on becoming different with your weakness, leveraging your strengths to basically accomplish all the same things. I'll tell two quick stories. One is when I was trying to figure out what to do with my career in life, when I was at a company for a while, I took a streaks' finder test and I was working with a coach. And when I took the test, she basically helped me realize that all my strengths point to I should just do my own thing and start my own thing and not work at a company.…

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