![]() ![]() Basically, I wanted to be as engaged in my campus life as possible – trying to learn many things and trying to keep myself busy.Ĭertainly, many of my teachers were concerned with my grades and many told me to cut down on my commitments, but I felt that I was able to manage them, and with good reason. Additionally, I even tried to run for my CCA’s president role despite my many commitments. Oh yeah, I am also actively involved in church activities too. Additional to that, I also participated in many competitions, including Chinese Debate ( I am bicultural!) Video Competitions, Economic Innovation Competitions, Youth-For-Causes and had piano lessons too. In just my college years alone, I had 3 Co-Curricular Activities: International Strategic Affairs Council, touch rugby, and Mass Communications Society. Look, the reality is that it plays out differently in everyone’s life, and my priorities towards campus excellence is more than just academic.Īs an Achiever and a Learner, I was constantly involved in a variety of commitments. “But why is it so? Don’t you have many talent themes that help you study effectively?” Add many big red crosses to that as well. Looking at my talent themes, I’m a smart student. Secondly, I am talented in Achiever, Responsibility, Connectedness and Arranger, which means that I’m not only a fast, reliable and efficient worker I can manage many things, complete a lot in one day, and just more productive in general. (basically almost all the academic subjects.) This means that I’m good at internalizing and digesting content-heavy subjects, such as General Paper, History, Geography, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Economics etc. Here, I’m going to share about my own experience, as a student, and how my supposed “straight-A-student talent themes” helped me in my school life.īelow are my dominant StrengthsFinder talent themes:įor those of you who are really “busy” and therefore unable to analyse/read through one by one, here’s a quick breakdown for you! StrengthsFinder Themes & Campus Excellenceįirst, I have what many people would think of as the typical research cluster in my top 5, (Learner, Intellection, and Input). ![]() For example, based on a first look, you would probably think that a student with Achiever | Focus | Competition | Input | Strategictalent themes would perform much better academically than a student with Relator | Woo | Positivity | Activator | Harmony, wouldn’t you? Well, at least I would. She is passionate about learning the diversity of cultures.)Įveryone wonders, are there certain talent themes that make-up a good student? If there are, what are they?įor those strong in the Gallup StrengthsFinder Language (if you are new to this, fret not! We got you covered: click HERE to read thoroughly the descriptions of all 34 StrengthsFinder Talent Themes), you might know that modern day education might favor some talent themes over the others. (This article was written by Gladys, our intern at Kingmaker! Her StrengthsFinder® talent themes makes her a Hands-on, People-Centric Bicultural Practitioner who values challenges and provocative thinking. ![]()
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