| These are my StrengthQuest results: Restorative
You love to solve problems. Whereas some are dismayed
when they encounter yet another breakdown, you can be
energized by it. You enjoy the challenge of analyzing
the symptoms, identifying what is wrong, and finding
the solution. You may prefer practical problems or
conceptual ones or personal ones. You may seek out
specific kinds of problems that you have met many
times before and that you are confident you can fix.
Or you may feel the greatest push when faced with
complex and unfamiliar problems. Your exact
preferences are determined by your other themes and
experiences. But what is certain is that you enjoy
bringing things back to life. It is a wonderful
feeling to identify the undermining factor(s),
eradicate them, and restore something to its true
glory. Intuitively, you know that without your
intervention, this thing-this machine, this technique,
this person, this company-might have ceased to
function. You fixed it, resuscitated it, rekindled its
vitality. Phrasing it the way you might, you saved it.
Input
You are inquisitive. You collect things. You might
collect information-words, facts, books, and
quotations-or you might collect tangible objects such
as butterflies, baseball cards, porcelain dolls, or
sepia photographs. Whatever you collect, you collect
it because it interests you. And yours is the kind of
mind that finds so many things interesting. The world
is exciting precisely because of its infinite variety
and complexity. If you read a great deal, it is not
necessarily to refine your theories but, rather, to
add more information to your archives. If you like to
travel, it is because each new location offers novel
artifacts and facts. These can be acquired and then
stored away. Why are they worth storing? At the time
of storing it is often hard to say exactly when or why
you might need them, but who knows when they might
become useful? With all those possible uses in mind,
you really don't feel comfortable throwing anything
away. So you keep acquiring and compiling and filing
stuff away. It's interesting. It keeps your mind
fresh. And perhaps one day some of it will prove
valuable.
Ideation
You are fascinated by ideas. What is an idea? An idea
is a concept, the best explanation of the most events.
You are delighted when you discover beneath the
complex surface an elegantly simple concept to explain
why things are the way they are. An idea is a
connection. Yours is the kind of mind that is always
looking for connections, and so you are intrigued when
seemingly disparate phenomena can be linked by an
obscure connection. An idea is a new perspective on
familiar challenges. You revel in taking the world we
all know and turning it around so we can view it from
a strange but strangely enlightening angle. You love
all these ideas because they are profound, because
they are novel, because they are clarifying, because
they are contrary, because they are bizarre. For all
these reasons you derive a jolt of energy whenever a
new idea occurs to you. Others may label you creative
or original or conceptual or even smart. Perhaps you
are all of these. Who can be sure? What you are sure
of is that ideas are thrilling. And on most days this
is enough.
Woo
Woo stands for winning others over. You enjoy the
challenge of meeting new people and getting them to
like you. Strangers are rarely intimidating to you. On
the contrary, strangers can be energizing. You are
drawn to them. You want to learn their names, ask them
questions, and find some area of common interest so
that you can strike up a conversation and build
rapport. Some people shy away from starting up
conversations because they worry about running out of
things to say. You don't. Not only are you rarely at a
loss for words; you actually enjoy initiating with
strangers because you derive satisfaction from
breaking the ice and making a connection. Once that
connection is made, you are quite happy to wrap it up
and move on. There are new people to meet, new rooms
to work, new crowds to mingle in. In your world there
are no strangers, only friends you haven't met
yet-lots of them.
Developer
You see the potential in others. Very often, in fact,
potential is all you see. In your view no individual
is fully formed. On the contrary, each individual is a
work in progress, alive with possibilities. And you
are drawn toward people for this very reason. When you
interact with others, your goal is to help them
experience success. You look for ways to challenge
them. You devise interesting experiences that can
stretch them and help them grow. And all the while you
are on the lookout for the signs of growth-a new
behavior learned or modified, a slight improvement in
a skill, a glimpse of excellence or of "flow" where
previously there were only halting steps. For you
these small increments-invisible to some-are clear
signs of potential being realized. These signs of
growth in others are your fuel. They bring you
strength and satisfaction. Over time many will seek
you out for help and encouragement because on some
level they know that your helpfulness is both genuine
and fulfilling to you.
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