title: Making Peace with Yourself: Turning Your Weaknesses into Strengths
author:  Harold H. Bloomfield 
description: "A rare, life-changing book."<br /><br />-- Spencer Johnson, M.D.<br /><br />Coauthor of One Minute Manager
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  A Profitable Weakness  
    
  
  
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  # A Profitable Weakness
  
  
  ### George Gissing
  
  
  
  
  
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  Only to the few and the very fortunate of men is it granted to earn a
  livelihood by the exertion of their best powers. Men in general owe sustenance
  to the meaner of their faculties, often enough to the basest possibility that
  is in them; and, even so, find the effort no light one. As a singular instance
  of something between the two, of a man who found his profit in the cultivation
  of a mere amiable weakness, without fatigue, and without sense of degradation,
  take Lambert Wellaway.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  At the age of five-and-twenty he was a master in a boarding-school, and
  loathed his calling. Possibly, under very favourable circumstances, he might
  have made a good teacher; he had a vein of studious incl