In competitive games, it often pays off to exploit one's own strong suits against the opponent's weak suits.
For example, suppose you are playing table tennis and you know the player at the other side of the table struggles with left-handed returns.
It is simply better to aim the ball at their weak hand most of the game.
In this scenario, pushing your edge means putting the ball where you yourself have the stronger play.
More practically, in life, it's worth recognizing where your strengths are and where you can—perhaps uniquely—contribute.
It pays to double down on every advantage you have and make decisions to press that advantage even further, so that it keeps compounding upon itself.
This works both ways: you should mold the situation so as to allow your strong skills to excel and you should develop the skills needed to excel in a given situation.
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Hi, I'm Victor -- a Brazilian computer engineer at Microsoft with 7+ years of industry experience architecting and building highly polished software. I enjoy deep technical dives, hard problems, and working across all layers of the stack. My work centers on robust, cloud-based, distributed systems and web-based applications that serve millions of users.
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