I also plug USB cables in correctly on the first try and I've been known to read upside down faster than most people can read upright.
Just don't ask me to fold a fitted sheet.
We all have strengths and weaknesses. It's great if you can find a way to have an income doing what you enjoy that plays to your strengths, but it's not great if you are never challenged to learn new skills or to become stronger.
The question is, what do you do about your weaknesses and the things you don't care to spend time doing? I mean, who likes paying the bills?
Oh, wait, that's me, too! I love paying the bills. I keep careful track of what I owe where and how much money I have in different accounts and will look back at where those accounts were 1 month, 6 months and a year ago to assess my progress. But, that wasn't my point.
So, you don't like keeping track of your money or you don't like paying the bills. But, you do it anyway. Or, maybe your spouse/partner does it. Or did you crunch the numbers enough to figure out that you could hire someone to do it? However your bills get paid, you pay them. Because, if you didn't, the rest of your life would crumble and you wouldn't have all the parts of it that you do enjoy.
Maybe the thing you don't like doing is something you can get someone else to take care, maybe it's something you decided isn't important or maybe it's something that you just keep plugging away at, hoping to improve.
For the record, I usually start folding the fitted sheet and then try to force whatever I've ended up with into a vaguely rectangular flattish shape. That's okay. My life isn't more valuable or less based on whether my fitted sheets look nice in the cupboard. But what if we're talking about a skill that has an impact on something that matters?
I'm not saying, "Be a truck driver even if you hate driving." Or an accountant who hates numbers or a professional athlete even though you trip over your own feet when walking.
But how likely is it that something truly profitable has no difficult parts to it? Perhaps a challenge or something that just isn't that enjoyable. I like driving. I really don't like doing double drop and hooks, I feel actual physical pain due to previous injuries, but it's worth doing those occasionally to be earning good money doing something that I enjoy most of the time. I take it as a personal challenge to keep trying to find a new way of moving my body in the hopes that I will get better at it.
Figure out what your super powers are. Figure out if there is a way they can help you towards your goals. Don't let the things you don't enjoy doing keep you from doing the things you do enjoy doing.

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