Ben MortonLeadership Trainer, Coach and Speaker

Your “weakness tasks” don’t just take time—they create a double drain

15 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Ben Morton introduces the concept of "non-strengths"—tasks that individuals can perform but do not find energising and instead feel draining. He explains that people tend to postpone or avoid these draining tasks, which leads to a "double drain" effect: the initial energy loss from the task itself is compounded by the additional mental load of delaying and remembering the task later in the day. This insight highlights how seemingly minor weakness‑related tasks can have outsized negative impacts on productivity and well‑being.

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But alongside our areas of strength, we also have areas of non-strength. And similar to our strengths, our non-strengths are things that we can potentially do, we just don't find them energising. In fact, it's more likely that we find those sorts of tasks draining. And here's what tends to happen. We put off those draining tasks. We delay them, we avoid them, or we leave them until much later in the day. And this creates what I think of as a double drain effect.