character quiz

[jenthompson]

OUr school district is HUGE on "character education", so they just sent out this character strengths quiz that we are all going to take in our classes, and the teachers were supposed to take it first and share it with our students. I thought it was amusing, so I decided to share the link with you guys too: Read more... )

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[ktlovely]

This was really interesting! I took the quiz for funsies...I feel like their idea of spirituality was heavily geared toward a typical 'religion' mindset, or having a set of beliefs that you rely on in times of stress or trouble. Self regulation was my worst one! Zest was pretty far down, too. We can drag ass an be unregulated together!

[jenthompson]

lol! I think that's why I like you so much. I have a huge aversion to "zesty" people! ;)

And I agree about the spirituality thing, so thank-you for saying that. I'm almost embarrassed to share my results with my coworkers because I'm afraid they will judge me harshly on that one. They all have spirituality in their top 5, and I'm worried that they are going to think I'm a bad person because I scored so low on that one. But as an agnostic/UU person, my spirituality is almost indistinguishable from my top 5 character traits - especially #1. I have a huge appreciation of the divine and see it in everything in the world around me. I just don't approach spiritual matters in the same way traditionally religious people do.

[bauhausfrau]

[jenthompson]

BTW - what was your top trait? I would guess that honesty and bravery would be high for you!

[ktlovely]

HAA! You're good at this; Honesty was my #1! Prudence and Judgement were 2 and 3, respectively...I'm feeling pretty anal today apparently. :P

Bravery was 10, so kind of in the middle. I feel like maybe skewing hard toward "prudence" canceled out some of the "bravery" questions, because they were about things like acting in the face of opposition and I tended to be pretty conservative on those answers in favor of assessing things before acting, if that make sense.

Also, I think there's nothing wrong with being able to see the divine and...I guess, sacred?...in everyday things. I flopped hard on the appreciation of beauty and excellence, and I always have really admired people that have such a deep recognition and appreciation of the amazing things in our world. I tend to get so I don't see the forest for the trees, if you will, and it's good for me to be around people that have such a different understanding of the universe than I do!

I uploaded mine to Google Drive for anyone who wants a peek!

[jenthompson]

So fun! Thanks for sharing your answers!