What Are My Weaknesses Or Vulnerabilities: a Place for Growth

Personality weaknesses and vulnerabilities refer to the aspects of an individual's character or traits that may hinder their personal growth, relationships, or overall well-being. These weaknesses can manifest as shortcomings, limitations, or areas where an individual may be more susceptible to challenges or negative behaviors. Personal growth and development is something I really value, so I constantly ask myself, 'What are my weaknesses and vulnerabilities?' to make sure what I need to change to be better.

After much thought and introspection I viewed my weakness as the math problems that I am continually working on to solve and improve them. I believe that my weakness has stopped me from giving the best of me involving the following:

• Lack of confidence
• Self-criticism
• Overthinking

Now I want to share some personal experience of facing with my weaknesses. As English is not my primary language, I have sometimes struggled with confidence. I used to avoid having a conversation with others, because I was afraid of being judged and humiliated by my Engish, I tend to keep my ideas and my thoughts to myself. I am unable to express myself, leading to self- doubted affecting my works and my relationship with others. I have had many doubts about myself, even when I know, I am right. I do not trust my inner strength and my judgment. This led me to reply to others and believe they are more qualified than I am that whenever I am assigned to do something, I have to wait for others to guide me instead of seeking the answer by myself that I know I can do it. It takes away my opportunities to show others what I am capable of doing. Because of that, I become extremely harsh on myself. Whenever I finish the assignment or complete the task, I can't help but feel that I could have done better even if my assignment or work received a positive response. When things do not work out properly as planned, I often get tense and blame myself for not knowing what to do best and prevent the problems from occurring. For this reason, it often leads me to overwork myself and leaves me feeling stressed out. One specific example was last semester when I was responsible for analyzing the survey results and planning for the meeting.

Thinking back, I always felt that it was my fault not to remind my team member to send me the data information a couple of days before the deadline that we had to reschedule the group meeting. I was disappointed in myself for not reaching out sooner to finish the task as planned. I am learning to take things more easily on myself as we all make mistakes and to all here to learn for the better. After my team did not meet expectations, I decided to start making changes to step out of my comfort zone to get more involved in sharing my ideas for the benefit of my team. I understand that weakness has its advantage that I learn to embrace my strength that step by step strengthens my weakness as well.