What are your Five Strengths?

fear
surprise
ruthless efficiency
an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope
nice red uniforms

I bet you weren’t expecting that

I’d list mine as:

Communication
My good humor, overall optimism
Resourcefulness
creative thinking

Curiosity, compassion, logic, writing, and centrism are my strengths. However, though I have down loaded the 17 page pdf file, I have not read Clifton’s categories, so my answer might be irrelevant.

I don;t think anyone who’s posted so far has actually read it yet…

Good luck with this question @downtide. :)

If anyone is truly curious about discovering what their Strengths are, the small price for one of the books that includes the assessment is worth it. Being able to put a name and descriptive to what these characteristics so hard-wired in me were was enlightening. I also had the SO take it, and we now have a better understanding and appreciation for how each other acts and thinks.

@downtide Here are mine:
1. Input (a collector, be it tangible or intangible)
2. Activator (the SO’s mum calls me a flibbertigibbit)
3. Command (someone not afraid to take control or to confront)
4. Ideation (a brain-stormer who makes connections between two separate ideas)
5. Individualization (sees each person as an individual)

Here is a list of the Strengths Finder Themes that aren’t in PDF form. What’s interesting is that most people cannot identify their #1 Strength. It is so intrinsic that they often cannot recognize it.

I read it.
Here are my 5 strengths:
1. Adaptability
2. Analytical
3. Arranger Learner
4. Communication Self assurance
5. Empathy Input
Boy. that was harder than I thought.

Adaptibility
Empathy
Harmony
Learner
Responsibility
That looks like me from my point of view.

Hmm…

Arranger
Input
Context
Relator
Restorative

@filmfann I opened up the question just to say exactly what you have said xD

Ok so in my case:

Sarcasm
Paranoia
Endurance
Willpower
Thinking

Belief
Consistency
Empathy
Includer
Positivity

Communication
Empathy
Ideation
Intellection
Restorative

It was really hard to choose the top five, and I have no idea what order the ones I’ve chosen would fall in.

Mine kind of fall into categories of myself.

Deliberative and Self Assurance
Input and Intellection
and Connectedness

I couldn’t order them, but I would definitely say people see the deliberative first, it is the way I deal with the world. The intellection and input I mostly consider weaknesses, and connectedness and self assurance are just who I am, not really what I do.

This is interesting. I’m going to have to do a real assessment at some point.

I would guess my 5 strengths are:

Analytical
Competition
Deliberative
Input
Intellection

Communication
Context
Empathy
Intellection
Discipline

Analytical
Ideation
Empathy
Intellection
Arranger

I took the test—it IS worth it. I learned more about myself by taking the test—what I thought about myself was really broadened with the test results.

Input
Ideation
Context
Strategic
Connectedness