Essay On Strengths And Weaknesses

Nothing is ever more important than getting to know yourself. It is very important so that you can find a career that is very satisfying and rewarding. In every situation, you should always know yourself first before starting to know others. According to (Bonaparte, 2015), using your strengths in a job or service that you are doing, happiness will be attained more easily. The first step in knowing yourself is to evaluate what are your strengths and your weaknesses. There are few tests to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. They are the “Emotional Intelligence Test, Big 5 Personality Test, Myers Briggs Personality Test and Social Style.” According to (Mayer & Salovey, 1993), emotional intelligence is defined as the type of social knowledge

Emotional intelligence quotient (EQ) is without a doubt, a better measure of personalities compared to intelligence quotient (IQ). Hence, this is why it is recommended to take this test. After taking the test, my results show that my top strength is empathy. According to (Ioannidou & Konstantikaki, 2008), empathy is the understanding about the emotions of other people which runs by the saying “put oneself into another’s shoes”. Basically, it means that I could feel what the other person is going through like as if I was going through it myself. This is in fact very true. Throughout my whole life, I have always been the middle person between relationships and a listener as well. My friends would tell me their problems and I would listen to them and I could feel what they were going through as if I was going through it myself. A moment ago, my friend was having some depression issues

My most top strength is extraversion. According to (Cherry, 2016), extraversion indicates how talkative, social a person is. They are known to be full of positivity and always very outgoing. I could not agree less on this. I am known to be one of the most outgoing person. Back during my high school days, I joined a lot of clubs including the Interact Club, football club and many more. I have also won the title “the most outstanding interactor of the year”. I volunteered to be a mascot for a carnival we organized for the refugees (Refer to appendix 1-2). Besides that, Starbucks was having their 17th birthday and they were organizing a get-together event for the under-privileged children and I volunteered to perform for them and to be the emcee for the day (Refer to appendix 5). This however, shows how extraversion I am since I was being the emcee in front of a lot of people. This trait is in fact very applicable in a workplace. For example, a person with high extraversion tends to talk more thus can convey messages very easily. We, extroverts, are goal-getters. We tend to have high energy levels, very enthusiastic and assertive. According to (George, Helson & John, 2011), extroverts ought to seek more joy and feel less hindrance in social interactions. They would always go for activities that lead to a higher status and would avoid those that lead to