Clifton Strengths Quest Essay

What are Strengths? This question is one that I did not have the answer to or even respond. When classes started, I knew that everyone had strengths, but I never knew how to go about and find what makes me unique out of seven billion people in the world. When I first took the Clifton Strengths Quest, my mind was pondering how a test that has strongly agree on one end and strongly agree on the other end would produce my five themes. Then as I was reading the results, it was surprisingly accurate with my personality. My five results were Achiever, Intellection, realtor, learner, and input. Reading the description for each word made me reflect on how I was using these five themes in my current life. The Clifton test has helped by identifying what is a strength talent are, figuring out what the best career choice, and using strengths to apply to life. {Opening} When I was hearing the lecture about strengths in week’s one lecture it makes a person distinguish the difference between talent and strengths. According to the Strengths Quest book, a strength “is the ability to provide consistent near perfection in a given activity: (4). after reviewing the five result the test produced, I was able to see the bigger picture to how my strengths have affected me in
I think before I took the Clifton Strengths Quest five themes the on that stuck out to me was the learner. I think it interesting how I use my learning abilities in everything in life. Whether it is learning about lesson that it I was supposed to get in life. For example this week, an irate customer came in job, at the time is was the worst thing but I used one of my five themes to get the solution. I think I learned two objectives first a person will never satisfy everyone, and also never to act out of anger. I could have been easy to yell but it really would not solve anything. I think that I have gained much knowledge about using abilities in