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- 1. Jacob Eslick 2/1/15 Cornerstone Roxanne Heimann StrengthsQuest Paper Finding out strengths are a beneficial part of figuring out who we are better. With my strengths there were parts I knew about me and then there were others that I did not think would have been about me. I found out my strengths by taking StrengthsQuest. After taking StrengthsQuest, my results were responsibility, positivity, achiever, learner, and woo. Many of the characteristics of these strengths I agreed with, but there were a few things about them that I disagreed with also. With these strengths I can how they affect my relationships and academic life. With my strengths I completely agreed with positivity and achiever. I believe in what they said for positivity where, You are generous with praise, quick to smile, and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation. Even if something goes bad I can find the positive of everything that happens in my life. I always love to make peoples days and one way I do that is by being positive about any they have going on also. For achiever, this was the biggest one I agreed with. By the end of the day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself. I agree with this statement completely because I am not the person that can just sit around and get nothing accomplished. Once I get something accomplished I can relax, but accomplishments keep me driven. While I agree a lot with all my strengths, I found the other three strengths to have things I disagreed with. The biggest strength that I felt I disagreed with was learner. This started with the opening statement, You love to learn, and whatever the subject, you will
- 2. always be drawn to the process of learning. While I do like to learn, I only find it in subjects that interest me. When I had my roommate read over my results, he believed that all of the strengths fit me besides part of learner. I completely agreed because it has to be a subject that I am interested in. With the strength woo, I believed I am that person besides a couple aspects. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. I am I very sociable person, but I am not the person that can just go up to a stranger and easily talk to them. While I like to meet new people, it just is a different way that I enjoy doing this. I am a little more hesitant than what the description of woo says. For the last strength, responsibility, I am a very responsible person, but when it comes to getting work done right away I am not like that. I do always like to see tasks through and definitely agree with most of this strength. There are many situations where I see these strengths come into play. When I am working at a job, I do not like the feeling of not knowing what to do or how something works. When I come to this obstacle, I always make sure I understand how it is done. When it comes to a strength I feel Im successful in, I feel it is woo. I am a very outgoing person, so when I go out on a weekend, I try to meet as much people as I can. I love the idea of having many friends and knowing who people are. While I am usually hesitant of going up to a stranger at first, I will end up getting to know them and glad I did. When it comes to school I have one of the most challenges. I am a very responsible person, but I hate doing schoolwork and always put it off until the last minute. I am never the responsible person and getting the work done right away. I
- 3. wish I was like this because I feel that would be a great addition to my strength of responsibility. The other part of class is the learning process. This is where I do not love to learn. If it does not interest me I have a hard time paying attention and do not try as hard as I should. I will make sure I learn the material, but probably not as good as I should. When it comes to my personal relationships I feel that all my strengths help with whatever type of relationship is. Why I feel this is because when someone asks me to do something, Im responsible and they can trust me to get it done. With all my friends, when they are having a bad day, I am very positive and trying to cheer them up. I do not like seeing an upset friend and find it to be my job to find out the problem and fix it. With positivity, it also can be a challenge to a relationship with my friends. When I am trying to be there for someone, I may look like Im just trying to get into their business and being nosy. Which is not the case, but I tend to run into this problem every once in a while. The biggest implication of my strength on my personal relationships is woo. I like to meet a lot of people so I gain a lot of friends. When I go out on a weekend, I will have over 10 people always wanting to go with me. This always creates an awesome time and creates a closer bond to all those friends. When it comes to make academic life my strengths do relate. When working in groups I am always a high achiever. So when it comes to it, I like to take charge of the group. I always feel that when I do this then we work better as a group because I can get us on the right track. I feel I am very responsible with my academic life. When it comes to attendance and getting work done, I always make sure it is
- 4. accomplished one way or another. With attendance I hat being late and feel I always need to be at class to learn. Most of my strengths make sense in my academic life, but responsibility and achiever are the biggest two. With my strengths there were aspects I knew about me, but there was more than I never thought of on a deeper scale. I agreed and disagreed with parts of my strengths, but in the long run that describe me the best you can. Knowing my strengths will help me understand how to improve both my personal relationships and academic life and creating stronger ties to those strengths.