Decide Whether to Spend More Time on Your Strongest Skill or Develop a Weakness

Development budgets and time both force a choice: go deeper on what you are already good at or fix the thing that is holding you back. This makes the case for both strategies, gives three questions to determine which one is right for your situation, and recommends the one that tends to produce more career value in most cases.

Provide the strategic case for two different development approaches:

**Case for doubling down on a strength:**
Why becoming exceptional at something already good produces more career value than becoming competent at something currently weak.

**Case for fixing a weakness:**
The specific conditions under which a weakness becomes a genuine career ceiling rather than a manageable gap.

**Decision criteria:**
The three questions that determine which approach is right for a specific person's situation.

**A recommendation on which matters more in most cases**, with the one exception that changes the answer.

Under 250 words.