In grade school, Gay Gaddis tried to learn tennis, but no matter how hard she worked at it, she just wasn’t very good. Gaddis serves on the board of directors of Monotype Imaging Holdings, Inc., and she is the first female chairman of the Texas Business Leadership Council. But as she kept missing the mark—over and over again—Gaddis began to feel terrible about herself. After eventually losing that job, Gaddis moved on to other opportunities and learned that her creativity and problem-solving were generated through collaboration with others—not isolation in a cubicle. And that’s the real lesson: Embracing what you suck at gives you the opportunity to figure out what you’re best at.

Source: Forbes December 05, 2017 14:48 UTC