How Meritorious Are You?

10 questions to help you decide

We all want to be people of merit but it’s tough to assess that. It may help to rate yourself on these components of merit. Then review your answers to decide what if anything you want to do to improve.

Rate yourself excellent, good, fair, or poor on these:

Improving intelligence is difficult but your best shots may be to take a class in critical thinking, join a debate club, have substantive interactions with intelligent people, and/or subscribe to an intelligent publication such as the New Yorker on the Left or National Review on the Right.

To improve, note how people react to your statements and actions. If you’re surprised by a reaction, ask for feedback, for example, “You seem offended. Honestly, did I say something wrong?”

A potent way to acquire or improve a skill is on a just-in-time basis. Whatever skill you need now, try to acquire it through self-study, maybe with a tutor to get you over the rough spots. Courses, let alone certificate or degree programs too often yield diffuse, insufficiently relevant, and easily forgotten learning.

That’s another characteristic that’s tough to improve. Best may be to remind yourself that extremes of emotion rarely serve you and that it’s usually wiser to breathe, see if something rational should be done, and take a baby step forward, distract yourself, or walk out of the room.

As you review your self-ratings, is there anything you’d like to do to improve?

You can reach career and personal coach Marty Nemko at mnemko@comcast.net

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