# StrengthsFinder Exercise

> A retrospective of the StrengthsFinder exercise as it applies to me.

Source: https://curiouslychase.com/posts/strengthsfinder-exercise/

I did an exercise where I answered questions about my StrengthsFinder theme results.

**Look at your past StrengthsFinder themes (first 10) and answer these questions:**

**Do you feel like they're accurate since you've taken the assessment?**

I think they're generally the same top 10. The one that I'm questioning is the "belief" strength. Maybe my core values are enduring but I'm not sure that i possess my beliefs so deeply that I am not willing to change them.

**Which ones do you feel like you operate in the most?**

-   **Learner -** every day I'm learning new things and I think I seek that out more than it being a natural side effect of my day
-   **Intellection -** I spend a lot of time reflecting and thinking about all the things...I'm thinking about!
-   **Connectedness** - I see the way things can fit together and how to connect the pipes from start to finish

**Which one would you like to strengthen and utilize more?**

-   **Woo** - I don't think I exercise meeting new people as often as I'd like. I know I want to start building something. I don't have a plan for this yet.
-   **Relator -** I'm doing this by reading Essentialism with Andrew and Waldo.
-   **Connectedness** - I want to spend more time doing this in a way that I can share the skill with others. A concrete action I'm taking towards this is diagraming workflows. Stretch goal would be to make a video of my working through this thought process.

**Which one do you find the most joy in?**

-   **Connectedness, learner and intellection.** The three of them together supercharge me for creating new ideas.

**Which one do you struggle with the most? (undermines your success, your required to do but drains you, or have had negative feedback about)**

-   **Achiever and Responsibility** - These two makes it easy for me to be a "yes man".
-   **Belief** - I struggle with this for two reasons: 1) I'm not sure I could tell you what my core values are and 2) I don't feel like I'm that rigid in the way I think about the world. I've talked with Andrew about "trading my fort for a canoe".