May 15, 2019
In this episode, Tracy shares a quick method for discovering your character strengths.
Learn why it’s so important for those with an ADHD brain to focus on what we’re interested in and how we can internally motivate ourselves.
Tracy talks about the VIA Character Strengths Test and how it can help us determine if we’re moving in the right direction in our careers and life. This test:
- Looks for the personality traits that represent the essence of who you are
- Shows you what drive you, gives you energy and keeps you in integrity
- Focuses on 24 character strengths
Discover the difference between values and character strengths and the benefits of being in positive emotion. Learn also how positive emotion and our strengths are related.
Tracy introduces Dr. Martin Seligman and shares how the VIA Character Strengths Test came into being and how she initially thought it was just another personality test. Several years later she was reintroduced to it through ADDCA.
In creating the Via Character Strengths Test, Seligman and his associates looked at:
- All the world religions
- Virtue catalogues by Plato, Aristotle, Confucious, William Bennet, Benjamin Franklin etc.
- The work of psychologists including Thorndike, Erickson, Cawley, Gardner etc.
Learn the six themes or virtues and 24 character strengths that make humans their best and how the VIA Character Strengths Test can be so helpful in understanding who you are, what you should do next and/or why what you’re currently doing is not working.
Tracy then shares what Signature Strengths are and why they’re so important to our well-being and energy. She also talks about her Signature Strengths and gives examples of why it’s so hard for her to get things done when she’s not employing them.
Finally she covers common Phasic Strengths for the ADHD brain, what they are and how we can use them successfully during times of challenge or crisis.
Here is the link for the FREE VIA Character Strengths test.