Top Five Character Strengths

Life Lab #3

The top five character strengths that I predicted are judgment, bravery, love of learning, creativity, and fairness. Now, I will explain why I believe these are my strengths: 1. Bravery. I am a fairly self-conscious person, and that is because I have social anxiety disorder. I am constantly agonizing about peoples’ perception of me. Despite struggling with this mental illness, I still try. Every day, I do things that terrify me, such as raising my hand in class, asking questions, offering my opinion in class discussions, doing presentations, socializing, etc. Even though speaking up terrifies me, I am vocal in the face of injustice, bigotry, and discrimination, even if it results in conflict with others. 2. Judgement. I consider myself to be a critical thinker, particularly when it comes to social issues; I like to observe problematic social norms and other social issues with a goal of understanding why it started, who is perpetuating it, and how it can be solved. I dislike being spoon-fed information without being able to assess its

Creativity and love of learning did not make into the top 5, but they were still relatively high on the list. My sister took the survey, and the results say that my top 5 character strengths are bravery, judgement, fairness, prudence, and curiosity. For the most part, my sisters survey results are consistent with mine. Seeing as having social anxiety disorder causes me to be cautious of what I do and say, I can understand why my sister would see me as “prudent”. As for curiosity, I do not particularly think that curiosity is one of my greatest strengths, but I can say that I do like to observe things I find intriguing and that I have a wide variety of