Communications

Instinctively, you welcome all kinds of people into your circle of friends, family, or acquaintances. You have an ability to bond with individuals without expecting them to conform to your way of thinking, working, or living. You typically revel in the diversity of humankind. You refuse to bemoan the fact that every person, language, or culture is different. You have concluded that human beings are inextricably linked with one another as well as with everything in the cosmos — that is, the universe. Because of your strengths, you sense that you are inextricably linked to your teammates. You understand your success depends on each one of them just as their individual success hinges on you. Driven by your talents, you often are instrumental in helping your teammates discover how they are linked to one another. You regularly remind them that their successes and failures are a direct result of their ability to work together. By nature, you routinely isolate facts that link ideas, events, or people. You are especially sensitive to how one person’s optimistic or negative thoughts can affect the entire human family. This prompts you to pay close attention to what individuals and groups think and do. Chances are good that you argue that hard work influences the course of your life more than anything else. You make your own good fortune by preparing yourself to take advantage of opportunities as they arise. Each time you are successful, you can outline exactly what you did to reach a goal. You link together facts, incidents, conversations, or available resources to understand your accomplishments. You resist the notion that life is nothing more than a game of chance.

By nature, you long to know more so you remain on the cutting edge of your field or areas of interest. Your inventive mind usually generates more possibilities than you can handle or fund. Nonetheless, you are committed to acquiring knowledge and/or skills. You study everything involved in a situation and conceive entirely new ways of seeing or doing things. What you already know prompts you to ask questions and delve even deeper into a subject or problem. Because of your strengths, you are innovative, inventive, original, and resourceful. Your mind allows you to venture beyond the commonplace, the familiar, or the obvious. You entertain ideas about the best ways to reach a goal, increase productivity, or solve a problem. First, you think of alternatives. Then you choose the best option. Chances are good that you have acquired valuable skills and knowledge. You spend time considering numerous courses of action before choosing one. You invent original and innovative techniques for dealing with expected and unexpected challenges. You use the same approach to take advantage of promising opportunities. Instinctively, you can reconfigure factual information or data in ways that reveal trends, raise issues, identify opportunities, or offer solutions. You bring an added dimension to discussions. You make sense out of seemingly unrelated information. You are likely to generate multiple action plans before you choose the best one. Driven by your talents, you often bring an imaginative game plan to your teammates’ attention. You enjoy partnering with people who rely on you to identify critical as well as recurring sequences of events, facts, or data.

Driven by your talents, you see yourself as a contributing member of the group. You enjoy partnering with intelligent people. You like to exchange information, share observations, or offer tips for doing things more easily, efficiently, or swiftly. You are happiest collaborating with individuals who are not stingy with what they know. You have an ability to figure out how everyone on the team can benefit from each other’s knowledge, skills, experiences, or wisdom. By nature, you are motivated to continually acquire knowledge and skills. Discovering new ways to use your talents energizes you. You are likely to escape from situations and avoid people who want you to keep doing what you already know how to do well. Maintaining an intellectual status quo is unacceptable to you. Instinctively, you yearn to increase your knowledge by being kept in the information loop. This explains why you gravitate to people who converse about ideas at a deeper and more thoughtful level than most individuals are capable of doing. “Making small talk” — that is, engaging in idle conversation — probably seems like a waste of time to you. Chances are good that you are grateful when your questions are answered, your studies yield new information, or your knowledge increases. You routinely deepen your understanding through conversations, the media, the Internet, books, or classes. You resist spending the majority of your time on topics that are not in line with your natural abilities. Instead, you choose to take advantage of your talents — and by doing so, you consistently produce topnotch results. Because of your strengths, you may prefer to read, write, and ponder philosophies, theories, or concepts that interest you. You might prefer to be alone with your thoughts rather than engage people in small talk at a social event.

Chances are good that you effortlessly adjust to the shifting challenges of the day. You enjoy variety and change. You are comfortable allowing each day to unfold on its own terms. You feel little stress when predetermined timelines must be scrapped. You probably regard rigidly organized plans and routines as barriers rather than helpful tools. Instinctively, you allow your life to unfold naturally. You trust you will find your path as it evolves. You resist being tied to predetermined plans and standardized systems. You prefer to experience life in the moment. You are eager to see where it takes you. Because of your strengths, you need to have time to rest and unwind. Rushing from one activity or assignment to another can take a toll on you mentally, physically, or emotionally. So, rather than do the opposite of what everyone else is doing, you prefer to move in the same direction as they are. Typically you choose to use the processes they are using. In your opinion, being cooperative is not only sensible and efficient, but also less exhausting. It’s very likely that you usually do much better when you are free to respond to demands and problems as they arise. Understandably, you dislike being forced to follow someone else’s plan of action. Having to use outdated and inefficient processes probably is just as frustrating. By nature, you realize that each day offers its own surprises. You trust you can handle whatever occurs. Even when you do not know exactly what to do, you probably know someone who does. You have an uncanny ability to easily and cooperatively proceed in the direction in which other people and processes are moving.

Driven by your talents, you may update certain individuals about current events. Sometimes you are the person who obtains the latest information about school-related activities, changes in the organization, or breaking news from around the world. Instinctively, you have the ability to tune in to each person’s unique situation. Instinctively, you can comprehend someone’s thoughts and feelings. As a result, you routinely help individuals feel optimistic about their current circumstances. By nature, you cause others to pay attention to their innermost thoughts and feelings. People are confident of your ability to exercise good judgment and common sense. Many people trust you to keep to yourself whatever they choose to share. Your capacity to imagine their situations and be sensitive to their needs allows individuals to unburden themselves. You listen. You customarily acknowledge their unique circumstances. Because of your strengths, you possess a gift for watching people, then identifying the traits that make each person truly unique, distinct, and special. When you observe others’ actions and listen to their words, you tend to identify each one’s talents, weaknesses, likes, dislikes, moods, motivations, interests, preferences, or background. It’s very likely that you may be able to help people concentrate on one activity at a time. Why? Perhaps you have noticed this approach has allowed you to be more efficient or productive.