The Wednesday Play: Is it weakness or strength?

They told me it was a weakness. Turns out they were wrong.

Hi Playmakers,

I recently shared how every teacher growing up told me I talked too much.

At the time, it felt like a flaw. Year after year, we’d sit down and read the report card aloud and, like clockwork, read complaints about my talking in class.

But here’s the twist: that thing I was told to shrink? It became the thing that built my career.

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