If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or 【C1】______ in your work would depend, to 【C2】______ great extent, 【C3】______ your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best 【C4】______ . Of the utmost importance is your attitude. A person 【C5】______ begins a job convinces that he isn't going to like it or is 【C6】______ that he is going to fail is exhibiting a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure 【C7】______ his belief that he is probably as capable of doing the work as anyone else 【C8】______ who is willing to make a cheerful 【C9】______ at it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. 【C10】______ the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. Lacking those skills is obviously a weakness. A bookkeeper who can't add or a carpenter who can't cut a straight line with a saw 【C11】______ hopeless eases. This book has been designed to help you capitalize 【C12】______ the strength and overcome the 【C13】______ that you bring to the job of learning. But in order to measure your development, you must first 【C14】______ stock of where you stand now. 【C15】______ we get further along in the book, we'll be 【C16】______ in some detail with specific processes for developing and strengthening 【C17】______skills. However, 【C18】______ begin with, you should pause to 【C19】______ your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that are critical to your success or failure in school: your 【C20】______ , your reading and communication skills, and your study habits. 【C1】