blog #9

http://changethis.com/manifesto/45.02.FreakFactor/pdf/45.02.FreakFactor.pdf

David Rendall's The Freak Factor is about overcoming your weaknesses and looking at them as positives. Instead of trying to fix everything, learn how to see your weakness in a positive outlook. He says that every weakness leads to a strength, and all you have to do is learn what strength it is. Such as if you don't like working in groups, then work by yourself and start your own business. I think his ways of overcoming weaknesses are valid but I don't think you need nine of them. The three that I agree with are 3. Flawless - there is nothing wrong with you. I agree with this because if people just sit and look at their flaws, that's all that anyone else will see. When I was little my parents said that I had a flaw of being left handed, but later on in life I figured it out it made me unique, and gave me a very big advantage when I picked up pitching.
The other one I agree with is 4. Don't try to fix your weakness. A lot of people thing that they have to improve upon their weaknesses or else they will just plague them forever, the time that you spend trying to fix your weakness, you could learn how to strengthen your strengths or find a strength that goes along with your weakness. My weakness in sports is that I have arthritis, but I never complained about it because there's nothing you can do about it. The only thing you can do is learn how to work past it.
The last thing I agree with is that you cannot do both. I liked the example that they used with Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and Target. You can be well rounded, but not at everything or else you'll just be mediocre and no one wants that. K-Mart tried to have low prices and high end products, they ended up being mediocre and filing for bankruptcy.

My strengths in my field of video production would be editing and learning the do's and don'ts of filming, that's why I want to be a director. My weakness is writing, that is why I am not trying to be a writer or producer.