StrengthsQuest Reflection Paper
My StrengthsQuest results presented my top five dominant themes of talent and strengths
being harmony, consistency, restorative, empathy, and learner. These five skills that I embody
did not come as a shock to me because I can in fact see through past experiences that I do value
and preform these skills in my everyday life in both scholastic and person situations. The two
themes that I believe to be very true to myself would be restorative and learner, which I think the
two can go hand in hand. For as long as I can remember I have always enjoyed aspects of
knowledge and learning new things whether it be random fun facts or researching a given topic, I
love to know how things work and ease my eager sense of curiosity of learning about the world
around me. Another part that inherently feeds my own sense of needing to understand or know
about new things is not only do I want to know how things work but also why, such as prior
background information, given history, research etc., because it allows me to feel as if I could
solve or decipher potential problems in my future based on my own knowledge.
The theme of harmony tells me that I value areas of agreement, compromise, and
understanding rather than be in situations of conflict or despair. This is which is also very true to
myself and how I choose to go about things in my life as I have never enjoyed the aspect of
argument, fighting, conflict, or friction. I pride myself on being a very honest and understanding
person and a part of that requires that I go about terms of conflict with an open mind in order to
put myself in another's shoes to see their viewpoint rather than solely focusing on my own
opinion because people are allowed to have differing views.
Following harmony, is the theme of consistency. Consistency meaning that it is very
important that I have a good sense of balance and fairness in my life. Not only in my own
personal life, but also in what is going on around me in other people's lives as well. Since I was
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little, I have never been good at accepting change or entering a new chapter in my life with
excitement and grace rather than fearing the unexpected. However, the aspect of consistency is
shown throughout life through many ways, one being achieving success through the act of hard
work instead of using self-connections or advantages to get you ahead.
A like what I briefly discussed in the introduction, the theme of restorative is based on
problem solving and the ability to work through an issue while pinpointing what is wrong and
how to resolve it. This is something that I have always embodied as it has never felt natural to
me to leave a problem unsolved without knowing exactly what happened and why and how it is
fixed. Prior to thi