Shaelyn Hairston
Humanities Scholar E-Portfolio
Artifacts
10/22/15
Strengths Quest Response
I honestly wasn’t surprised by any of my strengths. I always knew I worked best on my own and seeing that reflected on paper only reinforced that to me.
My top two strengths were deliberative and intellection, meaning I spend a lot of my time in my own head. Which, in all honesty, is entirely accurate. I’ve always had a tendency to avoid social affairs in favor of individual activities. Like reading, video games, sitting alone, in my room, pondering all the mysteries of life. Because of my solitary, quiet nature, I’ve been told I come off as unapproachable, and while that doesn’t really bother me, I prefer to think of myself as being selectively social. I don’t feel the need to socialize for the sake of socializing. If I talk, it’s because I have something to say. Which would explain two of my other strengths, relator and responsibility.
I didn’t really understand why responsibility was so high for me when I first took the test. I tend to be fairly responsible, but I didn’t think to such an extreme. But looking at my top two traits, it makes more sense. Whenever I’m in a group work setting, I instinctively take on as much of the burden as possible, so that I don’t have to rely on my partners as much. I don’t try to depend on anyone but myself. And with my relator strength, it seems to go hand in hand with deliberative. My cautious tendencies make me more critical of strangers, less willing to open up or share. I prefer small, intimate settings with people I can trust with my opinions.