I took a survey/online quiz thing at strengthsquest.com yesterday. Very interesting stuff. I’ve taken these sorts of things before and they typically tell me what I generally already know about myself. Unfortunately, I’m not really given tools on what to do about this stuff. How do I respond? Do I need to act differently? Ok, so there are some things listed that help the user to learn about this stuff. And then, of course, there’s the actual book I could read…
So, here’s my top 5 traits or whatever they call them. Well, I guess that would be strengths since it’s called strengthsquest.:
Adaptability
Input
Strategic
Learner
Ideation
The description of adaptability:
You live in the moment. You don’t see the future as a fixed destination. Instead, you see it as a place that you create out of the choices that you make right now. And so you discover your future one choice at a time. This doesn’t mean that you don’t have plans. You probably do. But this theme of Adaptability does enable you to respond willingly to the demands of the moment even if they pull you away from your plans. Unlike some, you don’t resent sudden requests or unforeseen detours. You expect them. They are inevitable. Indeed, on some level you actually look forward to them. You are, at heart, a very flexible person who can stay productive when the demands of work are pulling you in many different directions at once.
Maybe we’ll talk more about this later.
