The question is not,”What do you want to do when you grow up?”
It’s, “Who do you want to be?”
How do you want to contribute?
What legacy do you want to leave when you’re gone?
It might be part of what you do for a living. It might not. More likely, it will be a whole-person approach to living.
Ask the right question and you’ll get a better answer.
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:
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:
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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