simply being aware of your areas of lesser talent can help you avoid major roadblocks.

Tom Rath, StrengthsFinder 2.0

Consider also:

  1. “a hierarchy of competence with respect to human consciousness—will never be settled to everyone’s satisfaction”
  2. “I had no real idea what the people in HR actually did, apart from lose your confidential information, and practically want to know your blood group and who you are currently shagging when you fill in a form, just so they can all discuss you amongst themselves.”
  3. “all forms of serious art and knowledge—in other words, all forms of truth—are suspect and dangerous.”
  4. Unflattening
  5. “We have pretended that there was no such thing as sex, no such thing as venereal disease, that our publicists were True Believers in Christianity, that our women were pure and our men brave; we have howled down every man who dared to hint the truth: we have sowed the wind of pious phrases, and we must reap the whirlwind of war. It has been the same in every drawer of our cupboard—and now the skeleton is out.”