Paying attention to how people react can help you grow your ability to use your strengths without unintentionally slowing your team down.

To grow, you must discover what you really want. You need to reserve energy for acting on your priorities, not spending it all on fostering harmony.

Just because someone says they need you to do something, it doesn’t mean you have to do it. It might be better for their growth if they do it. You aren’t letting others down by taking care of yourself.

Be careful of your tendency to blow off other people’s feelings. Emotions can slow down a process, but you will ultimately be even more efficient if you pause long enough to listen to the other person.

Take time for yourself to find out who you are at the core. Knowing who you are apart from a group will make you even more effective in front of a group.

Learn to appreciate others around you. Their ability to enter into the fullness of your individuality doesn’t necessarily mean they are being inauthentic or shallow.

Be aware that although you do not need interactions with others, your team needs to interact with you.

Amassing knowledge about something is not the same thing as getting it done. Be wary of your habit of mistaking studying a topic as accomplishing goals.

Try to catch yourself going down the rabbit hole of planning for emergencies, especially when planning prevents you from acting. Your desire to explore all potential failures could be coming across as attacking your team’s intelligence.