PL 101: The Big 5 (Discussion 3)
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Hello Leadership Crew!
I am having a blast with you all. This leadership program is a lot of fun and Im glad we are doing it. I think itll help across many fronts. Shout out to @aleks2 and @quietmagic for their help looking at the first batch of results on our leadership composition. ÃÂ
Here is a summary:
Here is a summary from @quietmagic on what our collective - all of us together - strengths and weaknesses might be:
Leadership Crew Strengths:
Altruism/motivation: Having a deep passion for helping people that drives all we do and creates a feeling of purpose and meaning
Idealism: Having inspiring dreams and visions of just how unbelievably powerful and beneficial this site can be: imagining all of the good we might be able to create, all of the suffering we might be able to help heal
Kindness: Being able to create a kind, cooperative, culture that is gentle and considerate with people's feelings
Compassion: Being able to understand, connect with, and feel an urgency to resolve the needs, concerns, or problems of the people that we serve
Relationship: Feeling a yearning for deep, meaningful connections with others, creating a community where people are able to be authentic and feel a sense of belongingness
Leadership Crew Weaknesses
Practical implementation: Developing and optimizing systems, managing the fine details for concretely achieving our broad goals
Risk-taking: Being willing to take risks or make drastic changes to existing systems/practices where needed
The above analysis feels/seems right to me. This new leadership program in fact can be seen as one way that we are attempting to address a growth area by optimizing our leadership systems! And, zooming back, if there was going to be a team of people that was going to try to pull off the impossible (a free emotional support system), then I think itd be with the leadership composition described above under strengths. Itll take a lot of optimism and kindness to make this a reality!
Okay, lets transition to the next exercise and discussion.
Begin by taking the Big 5 test and answering the following questions. You can also read more on the Big 5 here ÃÂ and below.
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
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@GlenM
I have learned that i am extremely different from my friend.
What aspects of personality does this tell me about?
There has been much research on how people describe others, and five major dimensions of human personality have been found. They are often referred to as the OCEAN model of personality, because of the acronym from the names of the five dimensions. Here are your results:
Open-Mindedness High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative. 
You typically don't seek out new experiences. (Your percentile: 54) 
The other person prefers traditional and familiar experiences. (Their percentile: 1)
Conscientiousness High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent. You are neither organized or disorganized. (Your percentile: 42) The other person probably has a messy desk! (Their percentile: 0)
Extraversion High scorers tend to be sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative; Low scorers tend to be introverted, reserved, inhibited, quiet. You tend to shy away from social situations. (Your percentile: 34) The other person is relatively social and enjoy the company of others. (Their percentile: 77)
Agreeableness High scorers tend to be good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous; Low scorers tend to be critical, rude, harsh, callous. You find it easy to express irritation with others. (Your percentile: 34) The other person finds it easy to criticize others. (Their percentile: 0)
I know understand myself plenty better and why i do things
@AdylynS
Hey there! I like that you posted your results along with your rating for your friend! I did that too and got my friend to do the test so that we can compare our results - there were slight differences which I found interesting. My friend said that from how I rated him and myself - I seem to think pretty highly of him XD
So I think our views of ourselves and each other can actually differ slightly - hence the difference in results.
This reminded me of a video I watched before about how a selected number of people were asked to describe themselves to a painter and their friends were also brought in to describe them to the painter. This resulted in two different paintings for each of them! The paintings that the friends described turned out a lot more beautiful compared to the paintings the people described themselves.
By the way, sorry for going on this tangent 
but basically I think it's heartwarming to see how people would think more favorably of others compared to themselves.
1. I am very mindful
2. I am open minded
3. I know myself
4. In a 7 Cups role this can help me by easily being able to work with others.
@optimisticDay8079
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I am open minded, mindful, not afraid of being myself
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
mindful, openminded, i know myself
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
They help me learn about my personality
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
in a 7cups role this will let me easily work with others
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
That I am introverted :/ I thought it was pretty extroverted but that's okay lol
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
I'm open minded, Imaginative and warm
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
Well I don't know but I least I know a little more about myself now: )
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
It would help me determine my leadership style!
@thisisirene
My Big 5 test scores also said that I'm an open-minded person. I think it's a beneficial trait to have as the world is becoming more and more globalized every day! What do you think?
@UnicornsCottonCandy Yep. Hopefully this trait gets more and more extended!
@thisisirene
Imaginative is a great and important characteristic
@GlenM
1. To be honest, there wasn't anything about the results from the Big 5 Test that surprised me because it matched my personality 100% as it was just a reflection wrote about me. It was amazing how the test could figure out my personality with great accuracy.
2. According to this test, my top 3 strengths are the tendency to be an inquirer, being critical, and being open-minded. Tending to be an inquirer is describing my personality to be curious and stay creative while being able to develop my original ideas into complex ideas. Being critical is being able to give honest feedback or opinions to other people. Lastly, open-minded is being able to accept other perspectives and new opinions.
3. I feel that the strengths I have learned about myself were the ones that I was already aware of because it was beneficial in my personal life. I can say being creative and original was the strength that helped me the most during my academic life during English classes where I need to analyze different texts and produce my one piece of essay which delivers my own opinions about the text based on evidence. It helped me in engaging with different parts of the texts and making reasonable interpretations.
4. I think being open-minded and being friendly are the strengths that will help me the most in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in my career, which will be related to psychology but not specified yet. This is because both the leadership role on 7 Cups and my career are strongly associated with the interaction with many different people, understanding different perspectives, and empathizing with other's feelings. Being open-minded can help me accept other's opinions and perspectives while being friendly can make people feel comfortable when they are talking to me.
@GlenM
Open-Mindedness
High scorers tend to be original, creative, curious, complex; Low scorers tend to be conventional, down to earth, narrow interests, uncreative.
You enjoy having novel experiences and seeing things in new ways. (Your percentile: 92)
Conscientiousness
High scorers tend to be reliable, well-organized, self-disciplined, careful; Low scorers tend to be disorganized, undependable, negligent.
You tend to do things somewhat haphazardly. (Your percentile: 21)
Extraversion
High scorers tend to be sociable, friendly, fun loving, talkative; Low scorers tend to be introverted, reserved, inhibited, quiet.
You are extremely outgoing, social, and energetic. (Your percentile: 92)
Agreeableness
High scorers tend to be good natured, sympathetic, forgiving, courteous; Low scorers tend to be critical, rude, harsh, callous.
You find it easy to express irritation with others. (Your percentile: 20)
Negative Emotionality
High scorers tend to be nervous, high-strung, insecure, worrying; Low scorers tend to be calm, relaxed, secure, hardy.
You are a generally anxious person and tend to worry about things. (Your percentile: 87)
@GlenM
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I leant that I tend to enjoy taking risk.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
-taking risks, staying out of comfort zone
-being honest and upfront with people, do not mind disagreement
-extraverted hence good when working in groups!
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
My current job requires me to work with a lot of people so social skills are required,therefore my innate strength can aid me. Also, ability to take risk is always beneficial in life.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
- since i don't mind disagreement, i can be an honest listener, both showing supports and also be truthful to the members.
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I'm mostly introverted but quite open-minded. I can be pretty messy when I want to, but find a way to accomplish my task anyway.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
Agreeableness- I always consider the feelings of others and take their opinions into account.
Conscientiousness- I am usually messy when it comes to stuff like homework, but tend to stay ultra focused if given important responsibilities.
Open-Mindedness- I like being creative in figuring out a solution to my problems. I'm also open to new experiences and trying out others' ideas.
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
They helped me learn new sides to my personality. I can put these to good use in both my personal and professional life. As for personal life, being agreeable means I can always find a way to avoid an argument and deal with it calmly instead. Open-mindedness will help me grow as a person and learn new things about the world and people all around me.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
Learning about my strengths will help me to work smarter. The result will be more productive as I will be able to pick roles and career opportunities that highlight my strengths.
@GlenM
1.What were the main things you learned about yourself?
- The test indicates that I'm more anxious person than I thought as well as I'm disorganized and this goes with my intentions to work on these aspects to reach a balance that helps me achieve my goals as well as focusing on improving my strengths
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
- being open to new experiences: this helped me to have a much broader perspective towards different life events and made me try and explore new things that gave me more confidence to aim for higher goals.
- The test says I am neither particularly social or reserved: This kind of balance through these past few years in university gave me the opportunity to enjoy others presence and get along with new people in social events and as the same time I still enjoy my alone time.
- The test says I'm good-natured, courteous, and supportive: I'm happy to be there for people in time of need and listen and I think being on 7cups gave me a new window to practice this with people from so many different backgrounds and it brought me joy to be able to help
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
By working on sharpening them and improve and be more persistent towards my goal. I shall use them as a starting point to build a better me compared to myself today.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
- These strength would help me get started and support me as I work on my own weaknesses to make a difference during my leadership role or my career.
@Ahmed
Having a nice balance in extraversion sounds so good!
Wish I had that but I'm way too introverted - not that I can't be sociable but it can be really draining at times
@Cristen For me i do have my awkward moments and also times when i feel drained by others so i can understand what you mean to an extent. Applause to you that you go out of your comfort zone and be sociable at times even with it being draining. That is really brave
1. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
That I'm pretty conscious, introverted, and calm/relaxed.
2. What are your top 3 strengths according to this test?
I'm conscious and can be close-minded at times, calm/relaxed, and tend to be a little critical.
3. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in your personal life?
I'm more conscious about my strengths and weaknesses now, so I can be more mindful before responding to someone. I would consider re-thinking about my choices several times before carrying them out.
4. How can the strengths you identified on both tests help you in a leadership role on 7 Cups and in your career?
I value honestly and that would help me give the best guidance to those who need it. Hopefully others would find me reliable, that would make it easier for me to carry out my role effectively.
@herealways27
I get where you're coming from! I'm a pretty direct/honest person myself but I can be somewhat harsh and blunt at times XD
So I'll have to work on being more mindful in my responses too 