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Marcus Buckingham, author of the book, The One Thing You Need To Know…

So, the real trick to sustain your success is to identify what things really do play to your strengths, which don't, then cut out the ones that don't.

Of course everyone has aspects of their job that they don't like doing or they're not good at.

But we've got to be mindful that weaknesses are not just things you're not good at weaknesses are things that weaken you. The alarming thing is that today most Americans don't have a few of those things in their working day they have the grand majority of those things in their working day. If you ask Americans what percentage of your day do you spend doing things you really like to do, only 17% of people can say most of the day. Yet it implies that most of us are spending a disproportionate amount of time doing things at work we don't like to do.

Marcus says cutting out the things you don't like to do is kind of a backdoor way of finding out what your passions are.

And actually to say to somebody, "You know success comes from doing what you love, so what do you love?" That's actually not very helpful. It's pretty hard to pluck out of thin air, oh, what do you love, what is your passion? It's much more practical to say to someone, "Well, what are the three or four things you know grates on you? What do you know frustrates you?" Lets start with those and try and cut those out because simply by cutting them out you open yourself up to let your strengths shine forth.

Tomorrow, ways to cut out things that you don't like. I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.