Harry Stine has leveraged his own distinct abilities to build the largest private seed company in the world (see last week's posts, "Feed the world" and "More corn").
He says he does't understand people - that's a big disadvantage for anyone. So are the learning disabilities he struggled with as a student. But he has other abilities that he used to his advantage: he does understand and can process large amounts of data. That ability is manifest in his business today by the fact that his company is testing 150,000 varieties of soybean seeds. "His 'disabilities' were actually advantages that let him see things in ways others did not."
There are rewards waiting for you, too, when you concentrate on your strengths (an idea of John Maxwell, Marcus Buckingham, and probably many others . . including Harry Stine).
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