StrengthsFinder is a method of discovering natural talents by taking an online assessment and then applying the results to everyday life. The method is based on 34 categories of talent; taking the assessment gives you your top 5 categories, or the 5 things that could be considered your strengths. Before taking the assessment, I decided to look at the list of "34 Themes and Ideas for Action" and try to predict what my top 5 would be. Here were my guesses:
Arranger
Discipline
Harmony
Intellection
Strategic
And here are my actual results:
1. Learner
2. Input
3. Futuristic
4. Intellection
5. Deliberative
Because of the nature of the questions in the assessment and the answers I gave, I was not surprised by these results. Upon reading the descriptions of each of my 5 themes, I found that I identified with most of their contents. I also noticed that there was a lot of overlap between certain categories; an emphasis on learning and the hunger for knowledge seems to be a common theme.
I think that my results are accurate for the most part, but I found the assessment itself to be quite a challenge! For each question, you had to choose between two ideologies that were not always true opposites, and I struggled because I often fell somewhere in the middle. I wonder if my results would be any different if I were to take the quiz again, because I have a feeling my answers wouldn't be exactly the same.
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