If you 【C1】______ to begin a new job tomorrow, you would bring with you some basic strengths and weaknesses. Success or failure in your work would depend, to 【C2】______ great extent, on your ability 【C3】______ your strengths and weaknesses to the best advantage. 【C4】______ the utmost importance is your attitude. A person 【C5】______ gins a job convinced that he isn't going to like it or is sure that he is going to ail is 【C6】______ a weakness which can only hinder his success. On the other hand, a person who is 【C7】______ in his belief that he is probably as capable 【C8】______ doing the work as anyone else and who is willing to make a cheerful attempt 【C9】______ it possesses a certain strength of purpose. The chances are that he will do well. Having the prerequisite skills for a particular job is strength. 【C10】______ 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 cases. This book has been designed to help you 【C12】______ on 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 somewhere 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 learning 【C17】______ . However, 【C18】______ begin with, you should pause 【C19】______ examine your present strengths and weaknesses in three areas that ate 【C20】______ to your success or failure in school: attitude, reading and communication skills, and study habits. 【C1】