Strengthsfinder 2.0
"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence but it comes from within. It is there all the time." Anna Freud
So I picked up a copy of Strengthsfinder 2.0 and took the code from the book and did the online assessment. It seemed like a lot of questions but it did not take long to answer them. It came back with my assessment of my 5 key strengths:
- Context
- Individualization
- Connectedness
- Learner
- Intellection
The book and online aids give out some great information on the strengths it finds you reveal in your answers - and the list of possible strengths is a long one. The answers you pick in combination are used in some complex matrix to come up with the key 5. The way to use them in your teams, work environments, and probably relationships looks to be pretty interesting.
Here's what the expanded explanations were for mine:
02/01/06
Great Minds Think Alike
"Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people. - Eleanor Roosevelt
We all know the phrase. It's been with us for most of our lives. The guy next to you says what you're thinking, your best friend blurts out the exact same phrase you just stated, or maybe you stumble across an author whose words echo through every fiber of your being.
I wonder then... if we really believe it. Do we not realize how much we condemn ourselves when we encourage division? If "great minds" really do think alike, then doesn't the fact that we don't think alike mean that we're not all great minds?
Pages: 1 · 2
01/22/06
Alarmists R Us
zeitgeist: January 2006, post "domestic spying" revelation
ortgeist: a quasi-United States
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." - Abraham Lincoln, 1858
More and more these days I grow concerned over various forms of increasing division in this nation. I cannot help but wonder if the seeds of revolution are being planted at this very moment.
The political, economic, and social unrest that peppered the national scene in the years leading up to the U.S. Civil War are again rearing up in a way that I fear will eventually lead to an unreconcilable division in this great house we call America.
Two times in this nation's history we have been brought to the doorstep of Revolution. Are we getting ready for a third?
10/31/05
And Justice For All
zeitgeist: Fall, 2005
ortgeist: U.S. political atmosphere post Hurricane Katrina
"I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few." - Benjamin Desrali
When the checks and balances in our Constitution are negated by the sway of a majority political party, we find ourselves in very dangerous territory. In such circumstances the only hope we have to be free of oppression is to rely upon the good ethics, high morals, and humble care-taking of our governmental leaders. We put our faith in them to "do the right thing" for all who will be effected. But, what happens when the "right" thing is not a matter of enlightened decision, but is born instead out of political loyalty?
08/08/05
Paranoid Nation
"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy." - J.D. Salinger
Do you ever think people are just a little too pessimistic for their own good? I do. I think some are just more honest about it than others.
For example... I've been lost and received directions, I've been in a broken down car and had someone call for a tow-truck, and I always am thankful when someone opens a door for me while I'm struggling with packages. The kindness of strangers is an interesting and wonderful thing.
07/28/05
I Could Be
Sorry to have been away for so long. I've spent a few months trying to refocus and pull together some thoughts and then got side-tracked by life. But I'm back now, and hopefully will be updating on a more regular basis... though I do have some activities coming up that may pull me away for a little longer. In any case, let's dust off the cobwebs and get back to thinking.
XML Feeds