My (many) flaws!

To have the personal growth rate necessary to do impactful things, it is important to approach your flaws with almost clinical logic. This is much easier said than done!

So, in this spirit, here is a living list of some of my major flaws. I’m only including ones that I think are holding back my growth rate. I obviously have many more flaws than this (just ask my exes!)

1.  I hold grudges to the point of them being toxic for my personal productivity

2. I get extremely agitated if I think someone doesn’t believe in me, which then causes me to act in a way that continues to reduce their trust/perception of me

3. I don’t think in a structured/model-based way, instead depend on instinct, which makes me prone to bias and not thinking through problems completely

4. I struggle to have the discipline to focus

5. I’m not responsive and get irrationally high anxiety around being responsive

6. I make big declarative statements way more often than necessary, eroding trust

7. I use a lot of unnecessary/unwarranted superlatives

8. I don’t always control my body language well, and especially dislike looking people in the eyes when thinking, which comes off as insecure

9. I tend to be binary

10. When I believe something is true, I state it as such without giving any evidence (or sometimes even having evidence!) as to why I think it’s true. This makes me an untrustworthy narrator

11. Relatedly, my stubbornness doesn’t always match my level of knowledge on a topic, so I’ll push even when I don’t actually know enough to have that level of conviction

12. I am not savvy at ‘playing the game’, crafting stories, fitting patterns, etc

13. I get annoyed relatively easily and do not hide it well

14. I really like ‘brain candy’ e.g., YouTube, Netflix

Last updated Jan 2021. Thanks Fred & Laura for some juicy contributions!