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SPRING CONFERENCE WRAP-UP

BY DON HARRIS

Don’t Fix Your Weaknesses – ey’re the

Best Clue to Your Strengths

David Rendall

When the keynote speaker is wearing pink slacks, pink shoes en he got down to serious business and a discussion of
and a black T-shirt with pink letters spelling freak – upside down strength and weakness.
– and the title of his presentation is “ e Freak Factor,” you know “Every characteristic we have is a strength and a weakness,”
you’re in for a rousing and entertaining time. Rendall said. “ ey’re inseparable. ere is no way to have one
First thing people want to know about David Rendall, a former without the other.”
management professor and stand-up comedian, is how tall he is. He When he was in school, he said, he was somewhat of a troublemaker.
said he’s 6-feet, 6-inches tall. en he displayed an overhead photo His parents tried to straighten him out, told him to change. He was
of ashy boots and said he’s 6-9 in heels. told that when you nd a weakness in yourself, you x it – the same
Rendall told the good and bad of being tall. e good is that for a weakness in someone else. You try to help them x it.
most people think tall people are smarter than they are. As an “ at’s what we all were taught,” he said.
example, taller candidates usually win elections. e bad side of Rendall said he was a motor-mouth in school. Now, he gets paid
being tall is especially bad in airplane seats and restrooms. Rendall to talk. All of his weaknesses turned out to be his strengths. He
showed an appropriate sel e he took of himself in a cramped
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