Coaching practices for I've Got a List of My Strengths but it Reads Like a Flat Personality Quiz I Want to Understand the Deeper Character Those Traits Add Up to the Kind of Person I'm Actually Trying to Become

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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?

  • I’ve got a list of my strengths but it reads like a flat personality quiz
  • If you asked me to name what I’m actually good at, I’d freeze
  • I’ve done a bunch of those fun online personality quizzes and the labels never quite fit or tell me anything useful
  • I want to know what my real strengths actually are
  • I spend so much energy trying to fix my weak spots that my days feel like a grind against my own grain

Practices that may help

  1. Connect individual strengths to the broader virtues they serve
    Understand which of the six VIA virtues your signature strengths express, and what that reveals about your character.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
  2. Take the VIA survey and identify your signature strengths
    Discover your top five to seven character strengths using the validated VIA survey.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
  3. Take a validated Big Five measure
    Use a psychometrically validated instrument — not a viral quiz — to get a reliable trait profile.
    The Big Five Personality Model
  4. Identify your core strengths through your own history
    Find the recurring threads in your best moments to name the strengths that are actually yours.
    Life Review and Reminiscence Therapy
  5. Use your signature strengths in a new way
    Identify your top character strengths and deploy one of them differently each day.
    Positive Psychology, Made Practical
  6. Apply strengths consciously in your most important relationships
    Identify how your signature strengths are showing up — or failing to show up — in the relationships that matter most.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
  7. Spot and name character strengths in others
    Notice and explicitly name the character strengths you observe in people around you.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
  8. Use a signature strength in a new way each day for one week
    Apply one of your top character strengths to a context or relationship where you don’t normally use it.
    VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
  9. VIA Character Strengths, Made Practical
    Peterson and Seligman’s VIA Classification identifies 24 character strengths organized under six virtues, and multiple randomized trials find that using your top "signature strengths" in new ways reliably increases well-being and decreases depressive symptoms. The effect is most robust when strengths are deployed in engaged, relational ways — not just recognized but actively applied.
  10. Identifying your root middah (soul-trait)
    Find the one character trait that is the source of most of your difficulties and start there.
    Mussar: The Jewish Path of Character

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