We are too busy with daily schedule to pay attention to ourselves. It’s time to give us chance to develop our own strengths and personality. Insight gives me the chance to have a detailed self-reflection and development plan about myself.
Beginning from the Strengths quest assessment to the later self-development activities, those self-awareness activities enabled me to understand what I am good at. Before I joined Insight, I am not familiar with what exactly strengths I have. However, I had a much clearer strengths-development map in my mind after today. I learned that develop strengths is much easier than just improve weaknesses. Sometimes, there are couples of weakness that we cannot improve in terms of intelligence, talent, etc. I am especially impressed by the difference between Deficit-based thinking and Asset-based thinking. I personally focus too much on Deficit-based thinking, that is, emphasize my weakness and always think what I am not good at. That is, put too much emphasis on what I couldn’t do well but don’t utilize my strengths as much as possible.
By talking to my small group facilitator: Ruth Fiorentino Uress, I understood how she utilized her perfect planning skill to career development. She is now a financial advisor working in the Kovitz Investment Group, LLC in Chicago. Ruth has a talent of planning different event, schedule and other details. Thus, she found her career based on her talent and interests. When I look back myself, one of the strength I got with the Strength quest assessment is Activator: a person who always start the task the first and make sure the projects finish before deadline. I can definitely use this strength as my career sparking nature and develop it more in the future.
I also enjoyed the partial list of values. When the facilitators asked us to select ten values we considered the most important, I realized what I valued before and considered the most essential were not actually the most important in my life. As the value number I had to give up increased, I felt even a stronger feeling about the three things I valued the most: health, family and friendship. Without a healthy body, we are not a qualified “machine” that could work. Without family, the people who treat us the best without asking pay back, we are not complete. Without friendship, our lives will be dull and boring. After I learn those three values, I have a clearer view about my goal.
Identifying our personality and own strengths, learning how to apply the strength to our practical lives, being proud of our strengths and fully developing them are the most important things I learned from Insight.
Beginning from the Strengths quest assessment to the later self-development activities, those self-awareness activities enabled me to understand what I am good at. Before I joined Insight, I am not familiar with what exactly strengths I have. However, I had a much clearer strengths-development map in my mind after today. I learned that develop strengths is much easier than just improve weaknesses. Sometimes, there are couples of weakness that we cannot improve in terms of intelligence, talent, etc. I am especially impressed by the difference between Deficit-based thinking and Asset-based thinking. I personally focus too much on Deficit-based thinking, that is, emphasize my weakness and always think what I am not good at. That is, put too much emphasis on what I couldn’t do well but don’t utilize my strengths as much as possible.
By talking to my small group facilitator: Ruth Fiorentino Uress, I understood how she utilized her perfect planning skill to career development. She is now a financial advisor working in the Kovitz Investment Group, LLC in Chicago. Ruth has a talent of planning different event, schedule and other details. Thus, she found her career based on her talent and interests. When I look back myself, one of the strength I got with the Strength quest assessment is Activator: a person who always start the task the first and make sure the projects finish before deadline. I can definitely use this strength as my career sparking nature and develop it more in the future.
I also enjoyed the partial list of values. When the facilitators asked us to select ten values we considered the most important, I realized what I valued before and considered the most essential were not actually the most important in my life. As the value number I had to give up increased, I felt even a stronger feeling about the three things I valued the most: health, family and friendship. Without a healthy body, we are not a qualified “machine” that could work. Without family, the people who treat us the best without asking pay back, we are not complete. Without friendship, our lives will be dull and boring. After I learn those three values, I have a clearer view about my goal.
Identifying our personality and own strengths, learning how to apply the strength to our practical lives, being proud of our strengths and fully developing them are the most important things I learned from Insight.