Angela MondorClickUp Verified Consultant, ClickUp · Operations consultant & ClickUp Verified Consultant for neurodivergent entrepreneurs

You’re Dismissing Your Best Skills—Do This Instead #shorts #shortsvideo

10 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube short, the speaker shares a personal reflection on how she used to dismiss her own strengths. She explains that by actively asking people for specific feedback—rather than brushing off compliments—she began to recognize her unique gifts and understand how her brain works compared to others. She encourages viewers to ask pointed questions like, “What do you see as a strength of mine?” to uncover and lean into their own abilities instead of dismissing them.

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Or to be able to recognize that this was my gift. There are a lot of ways to look at this. If this is something you personally struggle with, like I said, you know, it was something I definitely struggled with. It wasn't until I started to ask people about these things. So they would say, oh my gosh, you're so good at blah blah blah. Or I just realized that, you know, this thing you do, yada yada. And rather than just brushing it away, like Okay, fine. Yeah, yeah, whatever. I was actually starting to ask questions about it. It's like, oh, well, do you not think XYZ, or are you able to do blah, blah, blah? And then when I started to ask those questions and started to lean in rather than brush off those compliments, I was able to learn more about my own gifts, the way that my brain works, the way that myself works versus the way other people worked. Then I was able to ask other more poignant questions such as, when you see me or when we're working together, what do you see as something that is a strength of mine? Or what do you see as something that you think