How to identify your own strengths

If you think you don’t yet know all your strengths, you might try taking the following steps.

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Take a personality test

Such a test helps people realise what their main personality traits are. This is extremely helpful if so far you haven’t been properly aware of them. Then you can focus on skills that align well with your personal traits. The test won’t tell you precisely what you are good at but it will at least provide some direction. You will come closer to understanding the guiding aspects of your personality. It may be the case that until now you haven’t been consciously aware of these.

Once you better understand your own personality, you have a greater chance to figure out what career path is suitable for you and the way you are wired. You will also understand what objectives you should set for yourself.

Test your aptitude

This test is designed to determine your ability in particular fields. It can tell you much about your ability to learn a specific skill or grasp some area of knowledge. By asking a series of questions, it evaluates which skills you might be exceptionally good at.

Like the personality test mentioned above, this type of test can also help reveal which career path is suitable for you, according to an article on the addicted2success.com website.

Focus on feedback

We receive feedback every day from friends, family and co-workers. We only need to reflect on the various reactions we encounter on a daily basis. We can also try asking directly, using a series of questions about our hobbies or previous successes. This can be done so as to examine quickly and easily various skills or strengths we have already displayed.

You can simply ask people who have witnessed your previous successes. Start a conversation about what you did back then and what you are passionate about now. Ask them if they could outline some of your strengths that are related to the past activities you just described.

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