How to find your character strengths and use them ?

We can self-study ourselves and find many interesting things. One such thing is your character strengths. They are broadly classified under the virtues like wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence. There are totally 24 character strengths found which are appreciation of beauty & excellence, bravery, creativity, curiosity, fairness, forgiveness, gratitude, honesty, hope, humility, humor, judgement, kindness, leadership, love, love of learning, perseverance, prudence, self-regulation, social intelligence, spirituality, team-work and zest. 

What is your true power ? (Invisible Women by greylock, CC BY-SA 2.0)

Why should you find it?

When you can know more about what your character strength are, you can put it into practice in your work life, home and other stuffs. It will increase your overall contentment, satisfaction and happiness of your life. It promotes joy, balance and well-being in all the things you do. When you can find your lesser strengths, you can develop them more gradually by taking little actions and growing them over time.

How to find it ?

You can find it in this online survey, viacharacter. They have exhaustive multiple choice questions. It takes around 15mins or less. It is the lengthiest online questionnaire that I have taken. But it is worthy to know your character strengths. Give your most honest answer to these questions, because no one is going to see your responses, everything is evaluated by the computer program and it gives back your strengths as a report (Save it for future reference, you will need it). It is highly accurate evaluation that i have found online. For me, i got my primary character strengths as creativity, curiosity, love of learning, fairness and spirituality.

Putting them into use

The most interesting and fun thing to do is to put your strength into use. You can create an activity for each of your strength and make a list of it for a week. Like for example, for each of my strength like create a pyramid holographic 3D projector for creativity, explore Dark-Net for curiosity, read a book for love of learning, help a needy person for fairness and meditate 15 mins for spirituality. In this way, i regularly put my strength to use. It makes life more enthusiastic and vibrant. By identifying the causation of what you like and to put it into these activities. You directly identify more about yourself and like the things you do. 

You can also put your strength to use in your work life. It will improve your job satisfaction and gives tremendous boost of value to your company. The potential of this self-evaluation is limited only by your creativity. Use your creativity and put your character strength to wise use so that it serves you and others around well.