Top leaders obsess over fixing their weaknesses and learning constantly. The speaker argues that in a fast-changing world, stagnation kills careers. Even non-programmers need to pick up skills like Python to stay relevant.
The leaders who are at the very top have very few weaknesses and they continually invest in their development areas, almost obsessive in their keenness to never stand still. I think now is a time where everything is changing, that that requirement to continue investing in yourself becomes more and more pronounced or you will be left behind. 100%. That's what I said earlier about looking into Python. I'm not a coder, I'm not a computer programmer, but you need to work on your development areas. You need to really seek to identify them and then you need to really invest in that as well. For me, is often what differentiates somebody who maybe has a career that's sort of stagnated because they haven't taken the time or perhaps invested the money required in that self-improvement and that self-development. And a lot of the time people don't really understand what are their weaknesses and strengths. Often you know the answer if you think about it a bit.
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