Postscript
To answer your question, "how do[es Steve] write the articles that manage to help so much somehow?"
He does it by the way he processes information (his talents), which he then backs up with specific skills and knowledge. Talents + developed skills and acquired knowledge = a strength. A strength is something you can do consistently well with near perfect performance.
Interestingly, while I have similar talents to Steve, I suck at long term planning. Steve is extremely good at it, because he is able to take in information (his Input talent) and process it (Strategic) while maintaining a strong focus (Focus and Significance).
No matter how much I try to plan like Steve, I still suck. What I am good at, however, is dynamic, in-the-moment planning. I suspect that I'd be better at this then even Steve. There's no doubt Steve would be good at it, but when it comes down to the critical, split second decisions, I'd probably make a few decisions that are just that little bit better then Steve's, because processing information quickly in the moment, while drawing on an archive of highly generalised concepts, is automatic and natural to me.
Interestingly, this doesn't mean that Steve would do worse then me at a certain activity, though. The basic premise here is that so long as each of us play to our talents and that we have the opportunity to do that, we'd both come out equal.
Try to think of things in terms of "am I aligned with and making effective use of my talents?" rather then, "why is Steve so much better then me?". If you ask the former question when trying to think deeply, you'll probably find that deep thinking doesn't make good use of your talents, and that you can probably write articles that are just as helpful as Steve's because maybe you can relate to people better or provide them with emotional support.
In that example, I'm supposing that you have people-oriented talents as opposed to mental-oriented talents. FYI, the reason I use the "relate to people" talents to contrast my mental talents is because there's such a contrast. Eg. I was with my sister the other night and she was in awe at how clearly I could express my ideas while typing something. On the other hand, she's a whole lot better at relating to people then I am. She's much more naturally positive then I am.
I once worked with her for a period of months, and
everybody we worked with loved her. My co-workers also liked me, but for completely different reasons, and they probably wouldn't say that they "love" me as they would to my sister since my talents are different. My sister is fun to be around, while people like having me around because I'm efficient and, admittedly, pretty weird to most people (but in an interesting way). If asked, I bet people would have said, "I prefer being around Bruce's sister, but Bruce is better for when we need to get stuff done". Heh.
