PL 101: Understanding Your Gifts and Strengths from the MBTI (Discussion 2)
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Hello Leadership Crew!
I have just gone through the introduction thread and read about all of you. If you havent yet introduced yourself, then please stop by and share a little about yourself so we can get to know you. Im encouraged by all the great people that have joined. This should be a fun and enriching program!
Let me first zoom back and talk more broadly about your career and how we can help. When you become a leader on 7 Cups, we want you to find the work fulfilling. Fulfilling work means that it is:
a) work you are good at;
b) work that is interesting to you; and
c) work that solves an important problem or meets an important goal (Thiel, 2015).
The sweet spot is that blue area in the middle below.
If you do work that you are good at, but not interested in, then you wont do a great job. If you do work that you are interested in, but not particularly good at, then it wont be great work. If you do work that you are good at and interested in, but it isnt helping to solve an important problem, then we wont be a good fit for you. We need alignment on all 3 things. We work very hard at the beginning of your work with us to match your inherent strengths and interests with needs we have so that we can work together to solve problems that we all care about.
You have strengths â things that you are just really good at when compared with others. Operating out of your strengths feels good, is personally fulfilling, and enables you to hit flow states. As a result, you are much more effective and productive. Operating out of weaknesses is a drain. If you have to do work that you are not good at, then you wont be as effective. Doubling down on your strengths enables you to level up much faster and it helps 7 Cups make much more progress. Â
The next step becomes helping you find ways to identify your strengths, gifts or natural talents. You can learn some of this through self-observation - what do you seem especially good at? Are there things that just come natural to you that are more challenging for others? My wife, for example, is really good at writing; it just comes natural to her. Im pretty good at public speaking, whereas others find it more challenging.
Another way is to ask people you trust. You can say: What do you think Im good at? Or: what do you think are my top 1-3 strengths? Things that stand out to you about me? Note: only ask people you trust because sometimes people can give you feedback in a harmful rather than helpful way especially if they are not trustworthy.
For the purposes of this course, we are going to use personality tests to help you identify your strengths. Some of these are better than others; they are more reliable and have more research behind them. Broadly, we are using them here to help you begin to map out your strengths and to help you find ways where you can naturally excel here on 7 Cups, in your personal life, and in whatever career your are in or choose further down the road.
To start:
Go to this site here and take the test: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
Next, in the thread below, answer the following questions:
1. What is your personality type? Include your 4 letters please Â
2. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
3. What are your top 3 strengths or gifts according to this test? Please describe them.
Last, when people interact with one another, it makes the course more enriching and it allows us to learn more about one another. In addition to posting in the thread, please also be sure to respond in a helpful and positive way to at least 3 other comments in this thread.
You can also ask any questions in this thread and well respond to them as well.
Very excited to kick this off with all of you!
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Assertive-Advocate
INFJ-A
Advocates are the rarest personality types of all.
Creative, Principled, Insightful
Advocates feel compelled to find a mission for their lives.
Perfectly suited to me “tend to think, “How can I fix this?”
1. What is your personality type? Assertive-Advocate INFJ-A
2. What were the main things you learned about yourself? Conscientiousness was a surprise but the rest was perfectly suited to me “tend to think, “How can I fix this?” Advocates feel compelled to find a mission for their lives.
3. What are your top 3 strengths or gifts according to this test? Please
describe them. Creative, Principled, Insightful these all come from my listening ability. I pay careful attention to what I am being told. Being a good listener, I am highly effective at completing projects efficiently because I don't have to be told something twice. My listening skills also enable me to effectively motivate others.
1-What is your personality type? Include your 4 letters please Â.
intuitive.
2-what were the main things you learned about yourself?
One of the most important things I have learned about myself is that I direct my mental energy to intuitive matters more than it was systematic, and my orientation to judgment is more than observation. Judging here means insight into things.
3- What are your top 3 strengths or gifts according to this test? Please descrip them.
1- Insightful look/ Often I look at people from the first time with a look that reflects what is inside them, so I find it very easy in how I deal with others.
2- Honesty/ The most important characteristic of me is honesty, because in my opinion, if I want to continue my relationship with others, I must be honest with them to the fullest extent, and I mean honesty, not rudeness! 3- Making conscious decisions / most of the time I can take the right decisions at the right time and most of the time these decisions are in the right place! But there are fateful decisions that I often take for granted.
My personality type:
My personality type is ISFJ
Main things I learned about myself:
I found this really surprisingly accurate. I do love helping people and things fit me well. It was interesting to look at the weaknesses and see things like repressing feelings, overloading with work, and being reluctant to change and how those are definitely things that are harder for me. Something new I learned was that I tend to make friends with similar personalities.
Top 3 strengths or gifts according to this test
Supportive ~ Defendants love to help others. They like to listen and hear others' stories, They care about others' feelings and want to be there for people in times of need.
Hard-working ~ When defendants find something important to them they will put in a lot of love, dedication, and passion to make it happen, and are reliable to complete the task.
Reliable/Patent ~ Defendants take their time to finish all tasks fully, they have a steady pace, there is no rushing. They often make sure that the work is above expectations and on time.
@Estrellitaa
Estrellllll, those are such amazing skills that you can use for cups sooo well! And reading through your strength I can see how it reflects you. How you are always giving support to everyone, I especially noticed that in the listener rooms, hard working we don't even need to talk about, that's just a fact, and if someone needs you you are there, you are really reliable. And of course patient, but in a shining and sparkling way!
Thank you for everything you are doing on the Cupsland! 💜
@Glen
My personality type is ISFP-T/ISFP- A
I learnt that I have fluctuating self-esteem and I am very sensitive. I would like to quote a Bob Dylan here I change during the course of the day I wait I am wearing person and when I go to sleep I know for certain I am someone else" and I would like to add more my handwriting also changes during the course of the day and
My top skills that are my strengths
Charming
Sensitive
Imaginative
1. I got Virtuoso (ISTP) as my personality.
2. what I learned about myself is that I am openminded. it also said that I will have an easy time making friends and that is not true, i have never had any friends before. I think i might not actually be a Virtuoso, i am not sure what my true personality is. I wish that I did not read the friendship section because now I feel even worse. I could have had a lot of friends but because of social anxiety, i dont have any.
3. according to the quiz, my top 3 strengths are being creative and practical, optimistic and energetic, and spontaneous and rational.
@ahhlo
There were a few things in my personality test I didn't agree with entirely either but it was a fun way to learn more about what motivates us. I wonder if we'd get a different result if we took it again next month?
@GlenM
My personality type is ISFP-T/ISFP- A
I learnt that I have fluctuating self-esteem and I am very sensitive. I would like to quote a Bob Dylan here"I change during the course of a day. I wake and I’m one person, and when I go to sleep I know for certain I’m somebody else.
My top skills that are my strengths
Charming relaxed and warm
Sensitive to establish harmony and good will, and minimize conflict.
Imaginative use creativity and insight to craft bold ideas that speak to people’s hearts
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@GlenM
1. What is your personality type? Include your 4 letters please Â
I am a Protagonist personality type. ENFJ-T
2. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I found this test result surprisingly matched my personality as what I already know about myself, when I connect things happening around me with the characteristics listed. As well as career path, “Many people with this personality type gravitate toward careers with an altruistic bent, such as social work, teaching, counseling, coaching, health care, or public interest law”. Not going to lie, I enjoy my time here volunteering, have passion teaching, and about to major in political science. Anyway, something I learned about myself is that I can be over idealistic without thinking about consequences in reality in a lot of things. As well as being overly empathetic, being able to understand everybody’s pov is good, but I have to make sure I don’t drag myself into someone else’s problem and treat it as it’s mine.
3. What are your top 3 strengths or gifts according to this test? Please describe them.
Reliable Leadership, Passionate, Charismatic
Fun tests I really enjoyed it thank you you for approving me me.and receiving me
My personality is ITNJ-Â my strengths are I am naturally a thinker I tend to analyse things and reason with my head more than my heart I believe that emotions cloud judgement
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My other strengths is I have lots of intuitive energy this makes me a very curious and open-minded person which is really good for great problem solving skills
My tactics are judging I prefer charging because it helps analyse the situation better
@snugglehuggle
My introvert buddy, good skills mentioned. Similarly to you, I am a curious person and meticulous in nature
@snugglehuggle
hello there fellow intj, i've noted that there are not very much of us around here. kudos!
@snugglehuggle
I agree with you on the open minded observation you have ! It's a good trait to have and I'm sure you're good at problem solving (:
@GlenM
1. What is your personality type? Include your 4 letters please
My personality type is Defender ISFJ-A / ISFJ-T
2. What were the main things you learned about yourself?
I learned that my personality type is quite unique. I’m a little surprised it in a good way. 😀
3. What are your top 3 strengths or gifts according to this test? Please describe them.
Supportive - Defenders are universal helpers.
Reliable and Patient - Defenders are meticulous and careful.
Loyal and Hard-Working - Defender personalities often form an emotional connection to the ideas and organisations they’ve dedicated themselves too.
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@RainbowRosie
I completely understand your results and we actually have the same personality type!! If you ever need or want to talk I'm here.
