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Text{{/B}} If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would
bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or {{U}}(26)
{{/U}} in you work would depend, to {{U}}(27) {{/U}} great extent,
{{U}}(28) {{/U}} your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to
the best advantage. {{U}}(29) {{/U}} the utmost importance is your
attitude. A person {{U}}(30) {{/U}} begins a job convinced that he
isn't going to like it or is {{U}}(31) {{/U}} that he is going to {ail
is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a
person who is secure in {{U}}(32) {{/U}} belief that he is probably as
capable of {{U}}(33) {{/U}} the work as anyone else and who is willing
to {{U}}(34) {{/U}} a cheerful attempt at it possesses a certain
strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. {{U}}(35)
{{/U}} the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking
those skills is obviously a weakness. A bookkeeper who can't add or a carpenter
who can't cut a straight line with a saw {{U}}(36) {{/U}} hopeless
cases. This book has been designed to help you capitalize
{{U}}(37) {{/U}} the strength and overcome the {{U}}(38) {{/U}}
that you bring to the job of learning. But in groups to measure your
development, you {{U}}(39) {{/U}} first take stock of where you stand
now. {{U}}(40) {{/U}} we get further along in the book, we'll be
{{U}}(41) {{/U}} in some detail with specific processes for developing
and strengthening {{U}}(42) {{/U}} skills. {{U}}(43) {{/U}}, to
begin with, you should pause to examine your present strengths and weaknesses in
{{U}}(44) {{/U}} areas that are critical to your success or failure in
school: your {{U}}(45) {{/U}}, your reading and communication skills,
and your study habits.