Playing to My Strengths

I am actually using the three ideas from James Clear today.  To me they dove tail into each other.
1.  A simple rule for life that rarely fails: Optimize for enthusiasm. Make as many choices as you can that leave you feeling energetic and interested. Pay attention to when you have the urge to pursue or participate in something and do more of it.
2. There is an enormous difference between working hard on something that is a grind and working hard on something that comes easily to you.  Exceptional results almost exclusively happen when you work hard on an area where you have some natural aptitude. Play to your strengths.
3. Education teaches you to analyze. Entrepreneurship teaches you to create. The educated mindset is great at dissecting and criticizing. What did Shakespeare mean here? What were the major forces of this historical period? What is the limiting reagent in this chemical reaction?  The entrepreneurial mindset is great at building and improving. Design a better product. Craft a new marketing plan. Stop talking about what's wrong and make something better.  The trick is to keep learning, but to never lose your ability to build.
Point one to me is something I hold to.  There is a big difference to me between doing something because I have to and doing something because I want to.  Sometimes I just need to do something because I have to.  Much of life is taken up with that.  It still does not change the fact I am glad when it is over.  I have found it is very helpful to get the input of others for these tasks.  Often something is come up with that I had not considered.  The whole is better than my part only.
Yet as point two states exceptional results often come from areas I work hard at and am good at.  I find that often the difference between me having to and wanting to is that when I want to mostly I am sorry to leave off a matter.  I may have finished it or will come back to it.   When I leave a matter I often revisit it out of nostolia.
The third point is something I feel we all have different strengths in.  Merril is a great creative type.   She often comes up with ideas that are great and “outside of the box.”  I have a measure of that but I take an idea and make it work if I can.  Things to me require thinking through to determine what may be the difficulties and how they can be overcome if possible.
I reckon we need each other and bringing our particular strengths to a matter generally makes it all the better.