According to Strengthfinders 2.0:
INPUT - My top strength is "input". It fits.
I collect information. I collect books, probably because they contain information. I find so many things interesting. Like I told Becky, I am fascinated with the child birthing and rearing info she shares. I will never use that info. It is probably pretty much useless to me, but I love getting it. It's new, it's shiny and I have never had that info before.
I collect web sites filled with data that I "might use" someday and save to "favorites". I know more about my clients than they know about themselves. I collect a network of friends from all my jobs: they have knowledge I don't have and they will always share information with me. My head is filled with useless but delightful tidbits of information.
I am probably the fastest manual search engine you will ever know.
FUTURISTIC: Strength #2
My, does that ever fit with INPUT. The future fascinates me. I read science fiction voraciously when I was a teen. I have a subscription to Popular Science, and I read every issue I could get my hands on when I was a kid (it's not so futuristic anymore). I am gleeful if I can sit with a group of like-minded people and talk about INVENTIONS, IDEAS for the future. I am energized. Yes, I am a dreamer and visionary. I can walk into a client's office and listen to their pain points/ issues and envision their future in a heartbeat. I can take a team that is giving up and make them see their potential for greatness. Another Goal: I need to find a futuristic friend to have coffee with once a month.
I can paint a dream and make it real.
3 comments:
I love learning new information too! I think that's one of the reasons I read so many blogs/websites. New information combined with learning about people's personalities...it's addicting! Plus, one day I would like to beat my husband at a trivia game. What? It could happen.
Loved reading this! I have Eric wanting to buy the book and take the assessment now so I am ordering one for him today. :~) My #1 strength is futuristic so we could maybe have coffee sometime this month to start working on your goal? Even though technology is not really my "futuristic" strength, seeing people's strengths, encouraging their future and visioning definately is.
My #5 strength is Learner. I went and read what the difference is between input and learner and this might sum it up, "The thrill of the first few facts, the early efforts to recite or practice what you have learned, the growing confidence of a skill mastered- this is the process that entices you." I love learning also, but not about "everything" but about subjects that I feel pertain to me. Which is possibly the biggest difference between the two... if it doesn't apply to me, not that I don't want to learn, but it definately is not something I would study up on.
Karen, having a monthly coffee date would be great! Talk about futuristic stuff, achievments and learning. :-)
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