What is your strength and weaknesses? -- "I am always saved by the last minute!"

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What are your strengths and weaknesses? (approx. 500 words)

Nobody is perfect. We all at least know that much. Every person has his or her own strength and weaknesses. I, too, have my own traits that influence my attitude and behavior.

One of my biggest strength is that I am a deep loving and warm person. I treat each and every person without distinction and I always look at someone's eyes sincerely whenever I speak. I would describe myself as a good listener because I am very good at forming an emotional understanding with someone one-on-one. I also happened to be an extrovert and friendly person in general. I think that is a plus by itself, because I love making friends and acquaintances. This nature of mine makes me have plenty number of links and connections so whenever I need something out; there are always people who I can always ask for help.

I am also a good speaker, as I am able to express myself well. I enjoy delivering speech because I love conveying ideas and thoughts to broader audiences. This is what triggered me to join several debate competitions back then, and to my surprise, I even won one! It is really great to find success in things that I enjoy doing.

One of my weaknesses is that I tend to procrastinate. I get very easily distracted. I know the importance of being discipline, but sometimes I cannot help myself but prioritize doing the fun things over the important ones. I can be very unprepared and saved-by-the-last-minute person because of this character of mine (I don't know any better wording for this. Please help!)

People might not notice it, but I am a fairly pessimistic person. If other people were to look about a problem and try to see it positively, I will be the one who thinks, "But how if it goes wrong? How if... how if...?" I will be the first one who see things negatively and often in cynical manner. I particularly dislike this nature of mine so I always try to suppress the feeling, or at least not to say it out loud.

A lot of people also told me that I am a forgetful person. I agree with this, especially when it comes to trivial matters, like birthdays and important dates. Another thing is that I am very easily swayed. I think everything is impressive and everyone is awesome. I think very hard to make a decision but when people ask my way of thinking, my belief staggered.

Finally, I may have a lot of weaknesses, but I always actively work on it. Every time I encounter a situation where my one of my weaknesses impedes me, I attempt to overcome it. It may be hard, but I have definitely made progress along the time.

I also look to apply my strength in new situations, to help refine them. I take every situation as a learning experience and opportunity to improve myself as a person.

What do you think?

I do really like that you have thought out of all the qualities, strengths, interests, and weaknesses you have. My advise would be to try to think of some examples to demonstrate this. Instead of listing all of them. Why not tell a story that shows how you overcame a weakness of yours? It's "Show not Tell". This allows them to see what you are talking about, instead of just taking your word for it.

I would also try to focus on the positive. I might try to think about rewording the part of you being forgetful. I am also forgetful. But if you do talk about it, make sure to speak about this in a positive light, instead of showing how you don't like this about yourself. You want to be honest if this is something you want to talk about being hard to overcome, but you don't want to be putting yourself down either. If this was a job interview, how would you want them to think of this? How you think of yourself, will be how they think of you. You have to be careful how you word this. It's the attitude you have about yourself, being positive and mature about things that you want to come through. You don't have to be fake or a salesman to sell yourself. Also you don't want to brag about your strengths. But you can be proud of what you have overcome and show how you will use this determination to overcome obstacles and be successful in the future. You can put this in a positive light while being honest.

Such as, something like "One of my weaknesses I have been working on is my forgetfulness". Then you might follow that up with how this has made you a stronger person by trying to overcome this. You may not want to use this weakness as an example. You don't have to, you can chose a different one if you like.

Here is another idea; instead of saying, "I am also a good speaker, as I am able to express myself well. I enjoy delivering speech because I love conveying ideas and thoughts to broader audiences. This is what triggered me to join several debate competitions back then, and to my surprise, I even won one! It is really great to find success in things that I enjoy doing." I would condense these sentences into one thought. You are saying something important but taking several sentences to make this known.

Your main idea here is that this is a strength of yours, you enjoy doing it, and you were pleasantly surprised how successful you would be. You might say something like (in your own words) "One of my strengths is public speaking. I was inspired and surprised by how well I did when I joined several debate competitions in the past. Seeing how successful I could be when trying something (new, challenging, out of my comfort zone etc.), was a boost to my confidence and inspired me to want to continue (growing, doing new things,)."

You write very much like I do, in the sense that you are describing all the ideas you want to get across. This is very good for starting. I would take everything you have here and turn it into an outline. Make a list of all these ideas of your strengths and weaknesses. Then you want to condense them, so the idea comes across right away. You want to reader to feel and know what you are talking about. Instead of just hearing you describe it. It is hard for me when I write because my essays always start like this. Then I go through and circle the main ideas I want to talk about and number each one. I make an outline. Then when I start to write it again, I try to come up with new ways to write my ideas that are shorter, and show it instead of talking about it. Show by example. And no matter what, don't let the essay come across that you are picking apart the things you don't like about yourself. When you don't like you, they will wonder what they should think. You can write about the same idea but in a more positive way. To show yes, I have this weakness I have accepted, and these are the things I have done to overcome them, and how they have made me a better person.

You don't just want to list these things, like maybe you would do in an assignment. You don't want to say you are a good public speaker, you want to use an example or story to show it. This is a great start! You have everything you need, you just need to make some changes to how you get these ideas across. So that you are being honest and answering their question, but also making yourself look positive and mature. If you were reading a story, or if this was written by someone else, how would you like it to come across? Then try to edit it down. The places where you may write several sentences to say one idea, try to find a way to reword them.

1) make an outline of these ideas you are talking about. Just list them.
2) rewrite it in a way that shows your strengths and how you have overcome your weaknesses. Make it something the reader can relate to, instead of just giving an opinion of yourself or listing them.

3) then go through the paper and underline ideas that you may take several sentences to say one thing. Figure out a way to rewrite it into one. If it's too wordy, it's distracting. I write this way too! It is hard to rewrite it, but it will really help you a lot.

I hope this helps! You can do it! :) You have great ideas you want to talk about. Just rewrite it in a way that the audience can feel what you are saying in a simple way. For them to relate or know what you are talking about.

Does this help? Your positive qualities and strengths, can always overcome your weaknesses. It is more important to show how they made you a better person than to just say that you will just keep trying to work on them. If something is a topic that makes you look bad, maybe focus on another weakness you have overcome? :) Good luck!

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This is a very good approach :)
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Just one? or several? Better talk a little bit more about that experience.


Tell the reader how you have been affected by this weakness.