The article “Freak Factor” is about finding your strengths and weaknesses. Once you do that it tells you how to embrace your weaknesses and how to work on your strengths. Some of the suggestions are about working on the weaknesses while other parts of it suggest leaving your weaknesses alone because your weaknesses are actually a good thing and help people be different. The article also explains that one persons weakness can also be seen as a strength, or the same vice versa, somebody’s strength can be seen as a weakness. This article gives suggestions on how to best embrace a person’s strengths and their weaknesses.
The first suggestion “what’s your problem” is important to me because I have been in a job that has evaluations. In this job my boss had a sheet with what I was doing well and what I could improve on. We were given these evaluations every two weeks and I found it important to work on the places that she said I was having trouble. Sometimes it would surprise me where I was lacking and because of the evaluation I would know what to work on. This is why I believe it is important to find out what my problem is with my creative works so that I can fix them and make the best work possible. It is hard for the creator to realize that there is a problem or maybe that there isn’t a problem. Some artists need to be told they are done. I have always had the problem that I go a step too far and ruin something that was already done and looked good. By going that extra step I sometimes ruin things where as if someone had told me “your good” I wouldn’t have to restart or do a lot of work to fix it.
I believe “Build on Your Strengths” is an important thing to do. Sometimes when I am good at something it covers up for the weaknesses I have. An example of this is the fact that I am not the most amazing drawer but I have a huge imagination so the ideas that I come up with shine brighter then the actual drawing and just by drawing it I was able to show my ideas. I think that if I spent less time workingon my drawings then I could spend more time working on the ideas I have and expanding my imagination because my imagination is my strength. If I focus more on my imagination and the ideas people will care less how they see them.
I also think that “Find the Right Spot” is important because it’s true everyone’s flaws can also be there strength when it comes to the right situation. I have always had a problem of being too loud and so I have been taught to hold in my thoughts and just sit there. Then I became a camp counselor and my loudness was my biggest strength. My loudness helped the campers have fun. The same goes with creativity. Some artists are told there art isn’t art where others will pay millions of dollars. This is a perfect example of that artist finding the right spot to sell her there art.
When it comes to the creative process I find that I have many strengths and weaknesses. My main strength is the imagination I have. I usually think of things in a different way. My imagination is very random and that is what makes its special. My weakness is how I get my thoughts out into the world. I have trouble when I need to draw things. I know what I want something to look like but I always have trouble getting those thoughts onto paper.
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