Comment by hliyan

Better formulated as: some weaknesses may be unintended consequences of your strengths under certain conditions. Rules of thumb like this are useful approximations of reality, but I wouldn't elevate them to the level of a principle that I would use in 1:1s. All the little phenomena that people like the author (myself included) in the tech/management world have observed and written about, would probably add up to several thousand. Human behaviour is complex. Sometimes you have no choice but to handle it on a case by case basis.