If you were to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or 【B1】 in your work would depend, to 【B2】 great extent, 【B3】 your ability to use your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. 【B4】 the utmost importance is your attitude. A person who begins a job convinced that he isn’’ t going to like it 【B5】 is sure that he is going to ail is exhibiting a weakness which can only 【B6】 his success. On the other hand, a person who is secure 【B7】 his belief that he is probably as 【B8】 of doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt 【B9】 it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The 【B10】 are that he will do well. Having the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. 【B11】 those skills is obviously a 【B12】 . A bookkeeper who can’’ t add and a carpenter who can’’ t cut a straight line with a saw are hopeless cases. This book has been designed to help you capitalize (利用) on the strength and 【B13】 the weakness that you bring to the job of learning. But in groups to measure your development, you must first 【B14】 stock of somewhere you stand now. 【B15】 we get further along in the book, we’’ll 【B16】 in some detail with 【B17】 processes for developing and strengthening learning skills. However, 【B18】 begin with, you should pause to examine your present strengths and weak nesses in three areas that are 【B19】 to your success or failure in school: your 【B20】 , your reading and communication skills, and your study habits.