- Think deeply. Think often.
- Keep exploring; always be curious.
- Look to the past to build a better tomorrow.
- Use your passion for learning to add value to your own and others’ lives.
- Share your visions of a better future.
- Appreciate and refine your gift for understanding others’ thoughts and feelings.
- Always have at least three options in mind so you can adapt if circumstances change.
- Bring intensity and effort to the most important areas of your life.
- Create fair systems to establish and build trust.
- Stop, listen, and assess before taking action.
Tag / StrengthsFinder
Are personality tests preventing you from being yourself?
If you’re like most people in the United States, you’ve taken at least one personality assessment at some point in your life.
DiSC. Myers-Briggs. StrengthsFinder. Enneagram. There are too many to name, but I’ll bet you’ve taken at least one.
On the DiSC profile, I’m a CSI, with an extremely high C. That means I tend to be:
- Analytical
- Slow to make decisions
- Precise & detail-oriented
- A rigid rule-follower
And I can attest that all of those things are 100% true about me.
But because I’m so rigid, I tend to take everything that I learn as a rule that can’t be broken.
For example, when I get “career results” back about what I’m ideally suited for, I instantly assume those are the only jobs I can do. It’s how my personality works.
So when the field of marketing was nowhere to be seen in my “ideal” careers, I immediately wrote it off as something not worth looking into.
Even though I was fascinated by marketing…
Even though I wanted to learn how to do it ethically, with a service-oriented style…
Even though I could use it to help make the world a better place. To help other people start and grow successful businesses…
But I couldn’t! Because a personality test told me so.
Doesn’t that sound ridiculous?
Personality tests are great for:
- Developing self-awareness
- Understanding your natural tendencies
- Learning about your strengths and weaknesses
- Discovering how best to relate to other people
But they do not define who you are or what you can do.
If anything, they help you learn how you would do certain things.
So now, years later, I’m involved in marketing—doing it and teaching it to others on a regular basis. And I do it in an analytical, detail-oriented, service-to-others way.
Remember that personality tests are tools, nothing more. One of my mentors, Ashley Logsdon, put it this way:
“Never make the profile bigger than the person.”
They aren’t supposed to define what you do, but HOW you do them.
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