Turn your handicaps into your best skill
My best advice comes from Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies: turn your handicaps into your best skill. When you stop trying to cover up the thing you feel insecure about, and instead put it up front so it defines you, something shifts. You show others how strong you are, and in the process, you actually become strong. Hiding a weakness costs energy. Owning it gives you power.
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