Your strengths are also weaknesses and your weaknesses are also strengths and this ought to be way more obvious and taken for granted than it is.
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There are many lenses to view this through IME.
From an evolutionary-ish perspective, your traits mostly reflect (mal)adaptations of some kind.
Environment affects their fitness. There are good contexts and bad contexts for every conceivable character trait.
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From an Aristotelean virtue ethics perspective, it's more a matter of balance.
Putting the correct weight on the component parts of your virtuous and viceful traits.
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Taoism, Stoicism and multiple other philosophies also have different difficulty/flaw/obstacle-embracing strains of thought.
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Sometimes you can think of it as temperance.
Your bad traits in excess will cause damage, but with temperance can give you a uniquely useful alchemy of perspectives.
Your good traits in excess can be authoritarian masters of your personality, in moderation gentle rulers.
Etc.
The tendency to label traits linearly as good or bad ignores that traits are not behaviours, but behavioural motivators.
And each behaviour has optimal and harmful contexts in which it can appear.
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