Sing the song with me... you know you want to!
This is how I feel right now in a totally, nerdy, excited way!!
Do you want to know why???
Because I just took Strengthsfinder 2.0!
*cricket* *cricket*
Ok, let me explain. First week of Freshman year in a
terribly useless class called "Beginnings" I took a test along with every other Freshman at APU called "Strengthsfinder."
1) I love personality tests!!!!
2) I love that EVERYONE in the school took the same one! I swear for 3.5 years of my college experience I asked almost everyone I knew, "What are your strengths?" at some point. I find it completely fascinating.
I also promised myself that at the end of college I'd take the test again to see if I had changed. But when college graduation came around $20 seemed like a stretch for a test that could tell me "you're the same."
Here are my old strengths. They're
so 2007:
1) Woo
2) Positivity
3) Futuristic
4) Relater
5) Includer
As silly as it is to some, these strengths are important to me. They helped me define myself. I have used them in every interview I've had since college (which have been a LOT) and I really saw my best qualities under the lens of those 5 listed above.
With my current job, my boss is having us all take the test. You can only imagine how excited I have been :) Well, I eagerly answered the million questions and was sure my 5 would be the same.
You could have heard a pin drop when I read my results.
My first thought was in panic, "THIS IS NOT ME!" And I was slightly insulted by the title of one of them... you guess which one...
1. Communication
2. Empathy
3. Individualization ("Oh great, Strengthsfinder, so I'm some selfish person that only thinks about ME?! I hate you and your slightly-accurate-yet-totally-insulting test result that doesn't sound like a STRENGTH!")
4. Positivity
5. Maximizer
Well I eagerly rushed to the "WHAT DOES THIS MEAN ABOUT ME?!?" description and of course my computer froze and died and got rebooted and I *almost* threw it against the wall as I desperately anticipated why I was labeled as "Individualization" by some jerky computer test that probably is totally false...
Anywho, when I
frantically calmly read through my descriptions I started to understand my results and really think they are true to who I am. Here are some short descriptions and my thoughts. I even put them in fun
colors so you are more inclined to actually read them! Muah ha ha...
1. Communication: I find it easy to put my thoughts into words and I love the give-and-take of a lively discussion. (This was my college major and I loved it, so I agree ;))
2. Empathy: I can easily sense the feelings of others by imagining myself their lives, and situations. (I was initially hesitant to this thinking "What a sap!" but let's face it, I cried in 2 different sermons today when someone told a story in church and then daydreamed the rest of the time as to how that would feel in my life...)
3. Individualization: I'm intrigued with the unique qualities of each person (YES- oddly so!) and I have a gift for figuring out how people who are different can work together productively (I agree)
4. Positivity: :)
5. Maximizer: I like to stimulate personal and group excellence. I know what I'm bad at and what I'm good at. I trust my gut instincts. (Yes. Yes. Yes!)
Not going to lie, after taking a test like this I feel like her:
You should take it too!!!
With love from Roseville,
Paige
