What is your greatest strength and how do you know? My greatest strength is my willingness to get thing started and try new things. This willingness has helped me overcome fear, know myself better, and forces me to be creative. When I try new things it forces me to really think. This stimulates creativity, which hopefully spills into the rest of my life.
How do you work best?
I work in best in 60 to 90 minute burst with short down time in between. I know that it is longer than the 5 out of 30 approach but when I finally get focused I need to keep myself there. I work best in a space where I can tune out all of the other distractions. Home would work fine if there weren’t so many other projects to get done that I can procrastinate by doing. I need to be able to fully focus on what I am doing as I am easily distracted.
What is your greatest area of improvement?
Self-compassion.Noticing what I’m feeling, remembering that I’m only human (and therefore fallible, just like everyone else), and treating myself with the same kindness I give to a family member of beloved friend. More often than not my response is to beat myself up when I stumble, even though I know that self-flagellation is counterproductive.
How do you hope to maximize your strengths for your new career in software development?
I hope to bring my excitement and enjoyment of facing new challenges to a team of coworkers. I want to create new things and be excited to face the next. We might all be jumping off that cliff but we’re going together and laughing as we go.
How might knowing about your strengths and working preferences benefit you as a software developer?
Knowing my strengths and weaknesses will help me in any career or undertaking. My strengths are things I can leverage on, things you can use to push myself further.
However, weaknesses are not my downfall. They are areas I need to improve on, seek help with. It is not something I’m lacking. It is something I need to develop and build.
