Recently some thread on the board had me thinking about my strengths and weaknesses as a go player. I tend to play in a territorial way, almost passively even, and when I try to combat that, I just end up playing unreasonable attacks.
In particular, I'm bad at the kind of attack where you profit by steadily putting pressure on an opponent, but there's no way to kill immediately. I struggle to read past the initial move and its response. I'm also weak at tsumego and tesuji problems. I don't think my opening is particularly good, either. I think I often make up points in the endgame, but only because I try half the time and the average kyu player tries one time in ten. Oh, I don't count much either, which is crazy, because I have exactly the kind of style where I should constantly be counting.
You can't be bad at everything, at least compared to people your rank, there has to be something that balances out your weaknesses. I think I can often play patiently and carefully. Yeah, sometimes I play blitz and play every cut in sight, but more often, I play steadily. And if I have a lead, I'm pretty good at preserving it, I think (but see the point about counting).