Tag: Strengths

Top Strengths v.s Middle Strengths v.s Low Strengths – Health Class

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog. Today, my class was learning about personal strengths, a topic we explored during our recent health class. We kicked things off with an engaging quiz designed to help us identify our strengths and areas for improvement. After analysing my results, I discovered my top 24 strengths, and I’m excited to share my findings with you. In this blog post, I will add my top 5 standout strengths, discuss my 15 middle-range strengths, and list my top 4 lower strengths, along with my thoughts on which strengths I believe should be ranked higher.

Top Strengths –

  1. Honesty: Speaking the truth, but more broadly presenting oneself in a genuine way and acting sincerely; being without pretence; taking responsibility for one’s feelings and actions.
  2.  Love: Valuing close relations with others, in particular those in which sharing & caring are reciprocated; being close to people.
  3. Perseverance: Finishing what one starts; persevering in a course of action despite obstacles; “getting it out the door”; taking pleasure in completing tasks.
  4. Social Intelligence: Being aware of the motives/feelings of others and oneself; knowing what to do to fit into different social situations; knowing what makes other people tick.
  5. Fairness:
    Treating all people the same according to notions of fairness and justice; not letting feelings bias decisions about others; giving everyone a fair chance.

Middle Strengths –

6. Hope: Expecting the best in the future and working to achieve it; believing that a good future is something that can be brought about.

7. Self-Regulation: Regulating what one feels and does; being disciplined; controlling one’s impulses and emotions.

8. Prudence: Being careful about one’s choices; not taking undue risks; not saying or doing things that might later be regretted.

9. Teamwork: Working well as a member of a group or team; being loyal to the group; doing one’s share.

10. Judgement: Thinking things through and examining them from all sides; not jumping to conclusions; being able to change one’s mind in light of evidence; weighing all evidence fairly.\

11. Bravery: Not shrinking from threat, challenge, difficulty, or pain; speaking up for what’s right even if there’s opposition; acting on convictions even if unpopular; includes physical bravery but is not limited to it.

12. Creativity: Thinking of novel and productive ways to conceptualise and do things; includes artistic achievement but is not limited to it.

13. Love of Learning: Mastering new skills, topics, and bodies of knowledge, whether on one’s own or formally; related to the strength of curiosity but goes beyond it to describe the tendency to add systematically to what one knows.

14: Gratitude: Being aware of and thankful for the good things that happen; taking time to express thanks.

15. Zest: Approaching life with excitement and energy; not doing things halfway or halfheartedly; living life as an adventure; feeling alive and activated.

16. Humour: Liking to laugh and tease; bringing smiles to other people; seeing the light side; making (not necessarily telling) jokes.

17. Leadership: Encouraging a group of which one is a member to get things done and at the same time maintain good relations within the group; organising group activities and seeing that they happen.

18. Kindness: Doing favours and good deeds for others; helping them; taking care of them.

19. Appreciation of Beauty & Excellence: Noticing and appreciating beauty, excellence, and/or skilled performance in various domains of life, from nature to art to mathematics to science to everyday experience.

20. Forgiveness: Forgiving those who have done wrong; accepting others’ shortcomings; giving people a second chance; not being vengeful.

Bottom Strengths –

21. Perspective: Being able to provide wise counsel to others; having ways of looking at the world that make sense to oneself/others.
22. Humility: Letting one’s accomplishments speak for themselves; not regarding oneself as more special than one is.
23. Curiosity: Taking an interest in ongoing experience for its own sake; finding subjects and topics fascinating; exploring and discovering.
24. Spirituality: Having coherent beliefs about the higher purpose and meaning of the universe; knowing where one fits within the larger scheme; having beliefs about the meaning of life that shape conduct and provide comfort.

What strengths should be ranked up?

  • (13) Love of learning – I really love learning, and I think this should be ranked higher because the love of learning I have is a lot and I like to learn new things. So that’s why I think this should be ranked higher.

 

  • (17) Leadership – Leadership is a big role in my life, helping others, organising group activities, and maintaining good relations within the group are very important and I think I am very good at that.

 

  • (18) Kindness – I am very kind to my friends, teachers, staff and other people around. I share kindness by helping them, offering help, or voluinturng to do something is what I do a lot.

 

  • (24) Spirituality – Spirituality is an important place in life, as I believe in a higher purpose and meaning within the universe. This belief not only shapes my understanding of life but also guides my conduct and provides comfort. Therefore, I feel that it deserves a higher position, ideally placing it in the mid-range, around 10 to 15.

 

Reflection and Conclusion –

I thoroughly enjoyed working on this task, and I found the process of writing this blog to be surprisingly straightforward, as I had a clear understanding of the requirements. Some of the rankings truly surprised me, but overall, I felt the health class was incredibly fun. Through this exercise, I discovered strengths within myself that I hadn’t recognised before, which was a rewarding acknowledgement. If you are interested in giving this app a try, here’s the link.

Thanks for reading,

Shreeya