Personal Reflection: How I Find My Strengths

StregthsQuest has helped me find my strengths so that I can figure out what I am talented at. These strengths may or may not be the most accurate depiction of my talents. My top 5 strengths are deliberative, adaptability, restorative, consistency, and responsibility. Out of all the strengths that I was given, Deliberative best relates to to me right now. I am very careful and always think about what I might do wrong. I have always had few friends and don’t like talking about my personal life. In highschool i was not liked because I was not expressive like all the other students. I used this strength whenever I take multiple choice tests. I read all of the answers and choose the answer that I think fits the best. I use this strength whenever I buy thing off of ebay. I don’t just buy an item I want without paying attention to the price. I wait patiently until I find the item at a price that I agree with and then buy it. Prices on ebay can be unpredictable so I have to check ebay …show more content…
I’m really bad at following directions and get lost when I don’t understand what to do. I do not work well in different groups and can’t concentrate when it is loud and chaotic around me. I am also very bad at helping people who randomly ask me questions. An example of when I wasn’t adaptive is when I volunteered to help out at a middle school for community service. It was the first time I did community service and I could not follow all of the directions they asked me to do. I eventually gave up doing the community service because I could not work with the other people who were doing community service. Another example of when I wasn’t adaptive is when I visited my cousin after years of not seeing her. I have never been around kids before and had trouble talking to her. I was use to speaking with my uncle and aunt but speaking with my cousin was impossible because all she was doing was making fun, making it even harder to talk with