Monday's class was presented by Colleen and David on the
concept of character and how it compares to personality and identity. I think
they did a very nice job with their presentation and I really enjoyed the
pre-work they provided. When I completed the quiz they sent us, I thought my
results were representative of my character. My top five character traits are
as follows:
· Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence
· Love
· Honesty
· Perspective
I thought that these five presented an accurate description
of who I am as a person. I strive to help others and be kind to everyone. I am
extremely aware and appreciative of beauty and excellence. And I do think I
have a good grasp on perspective. My next two were Fairness and Leadership,
which I was pleased to see ranked so high considering I am an aspiring leader
and I hope to be as fair as possible with all of the people I will lead.
My lowest four were also just as accurate. They were:
· Hope
· Zest
· Spirituality
I do not consider myself a spiritual person in the
definitive sense of the word, although I do have an innate connection to nature
and appreciate the earth very much. In terms of Hope and Zest, I am a very
realistic person and, although I can be excited about certain things, I am
generally reserved around most people. The definition the quiz provided for
hope is “expecting the best in the future…believing that a good future can be
brought about”. While I do believe my life is what I make of it, I rarely have
expectations of anyone or anything. I would like
to have a successful future and I am willing to put in the work to get there,
but I do not expect to be the most
successful person in the world.
In class, Colleen and David conducted an activity where we
had to try and correctly guess each person’s top five character traits
associated with them. I was very surprised when Jess got mine correct within
the first 10 minutes of starting. I see that as a very good thing though,
because it truly shows that I hold true to my values and morals to the point
where others are able to sense them as well. Overall I really enjoyed Monday’s
class.
From what I know of you, your top five strike me as accurate. I also had spirituality as one of my bottom scores and like you I consider myself spiritual but not in the conventional sense. One of the things to keep in mind with these psychological tests is how the test operationalizes its definitions. It seems this test relied on questions about churchgoing to determine if you were spiritual, for example. So that's something to keep in mind whenever you take one of th se
ReplyDeleteI'm glad that you liked the class! I hoped it would be fun for everyone. I scored high in kindness, appreciation of beauty and excellence, love, and honesty as well. It's funny that we share these traits and the same MBTI type. I'm not sure what it means but it can't be bad :)
ReplyDeleteThis was one of my favorite classes, now that I look back on it. I enjoyed discussing character and taking the quiz to get my traits. I feel like the traits that you got definitely describe you :)
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