Part of knowing who we are is knowing our strengths and developing them. Most of us are taught to focus on our weaknesses and improve those. However, there are several good arguments against this mode of living, which I'll discuss in a later post. Essentially, this conventional approach fails to maximize our impact on the world.
One resource for helping uncovering our strengths is viame.org, which provides a prototypical psychology test and spits out a ranking of your top strengths. The basic version is free.
According to this test, my top 5 strengths are:
1. Bravery
2. Perseverance
3. Creativity
4. Love learning
5. Curiosity
Thinking about my past experiences, this makes sense to me. The first two in particular are less apparent to others as they are more of an internal quality which I tend not to express while the last three are probably quite apparent to my friends and even strangers.
Keep in mind this is only one resource and cannot define a dynamic individual. Introspection would be another useful tool in addition to the MBTI (which I resisted for a long time but found to be quite useful as of late).
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