Woo
by G. Sax
So I took the test that goes with the book pictured, and I came out a “Woo.” I’m not exactly thrilled about it. I take it as a more of an “All Woo, No Action.” My other so-called strengths include Adaptability, Ideation, Stretegic, and Activator. I’m cool with all of those except Activator. It doesn’t really seem to grab at what I’ve been as a person over the years, at least not consistently.
Let’s explain these definitions as given by the book, Now, Discover Your Strengths, by Marcus Buckingham and Donald O. Clifton, PhD.
Woo: Love the challenge of meeting new people and winning them over; drive satisfaction from breaking the ice and making a connection with another person.
Adaptability: Prefer to “go with the flow;” tend to be “now” people who take things as they come and discover the future one day at a time.
Ideation: Fascinated by ideas; able to find connections between seemingly disparate phenomena.
Stretegic: Create alternative ways to proceed; can quickly spot the relevant patterns and issues in any given scenario.
Activator: Can make things happen by turning thoughs into action; often impatient.
All well and good, but I would have enjoyed the addition of Command, Communication, or Achiever. I would have thought that Arranger would come up. Then again, these are the things I think I am, and then I look over the frosty plains of the last 20 years or so, and I begin to understand. Who I am now is so different from what I expected to be at this age back when I was 16. A lot of that kid is in me, but it’s good to know that I’ve been, as the test says, Adaptable.
October 30, 2006 10:54 pm 
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