When quantum noise started ruining ordinary microchips, Feynman proposed using that same noise as the engine of a new kind of computer. What do you do with your own weaknesses?

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• That is the whole strategy: take the thing that looks like your worst flaw and make it the advantage
• Sounds good on paper. In practice a flaw is a flaw — fix it instead of romanticising it
• It takes an outside eye. Trapped inside the problem, you rarely see your weakness as a strength
• That works in art and high science. In daily life, build discipline and raise your standards