When Your Oddity Becomes Your Excellence….

Interesting to observe how often the people I work with become authorities in their field. It’s also interesting to note just how often this authority originates in what was perhaps seen as ‘an oddity’ in their youth.
There is some kind of logic behind this. When you consider that we need to work hardest at those things with which we struggle, it then becomes clearer why we might, in time, become very good at them.
But who would have thought that, as someone who was termed ‘over-sensitive’ in her childhood, could turn that to her very real advantage, as a perceptive and intuitive coach? I never saw that one coming.
Who would have known that someone who struggled with dyslexia is now highly qualified in communication in translation with British sign language.
Who knew that an individual who really fought with needing objects and time to be ordered in her childhood, has since become a lawyer in her adulthood?
When you pull the threads out with hindsight, these seem like entirely logical steps into a fulfilling career.
When you are right ‘in it’ with the struggle of making something difficult work for you. Or, if you have landed in a career cul -de- sac, it can be very difficult to see how your oddity can ever be you asset.
Tell me, how has your oddity become your excellence? Or is that something we can figure out together?
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