strengths and weaknesses

Our new internship coordinator Erica was talking to us about overcoming obstacles and just growing as a person professional and one of the things she said she really had to learn was how to be nice to people. She kept emphasizing the importance of being nice, and I was stumped at this because in my mind I was thinking, ‘How can it be so hard to just be nice?’ But everyone is different, and everyone has to learn different things and overcome different things. And I think its good to know what your strengths and weaknesses are.

So I just wanted to share something that I think could help with that, the knowing what you are good at and knowing what you still need to work on.




The MBIT personality typing test gives you a lovely list of your own personal strengths and weekends. As in INFP, these are mine, copied from the internet.

Nearly all INFPs will recognize the following characteristics in themselves. They should embrace and nourish these strengths:

Highly creative, artistic and spiritual, they can produce wonderful works of art, music and literature
They're more spiritually aware than most people, and are more in touch with their soul than others.
INFPs are very aware of social injustice, and empathize with the underdog. They may be teachers, ministers, writers, counsellors or psychologists, but they will most likely all spend extra time trying to help people with special problems.
They're usually good listeners who genuinely want to hear about someone's problems, and genuinely want to help them.
They accept and value people as individuals, and are strongly egalitarian.
Usually deep and intelligent, they're able to grasp difficult concepts with relative ease.
Warmly concerned and caring towards others
Deep capacity for love and caring
Driven to meet other's needs
Able to express themselves well
can be somewhat spontaneous and impulsive (strength or weakness)
Has high standards and are perfectionist (strength or weakness)
Flexible, laid-back and diverse

INFP may show some or all of the following weaknesses in varying degrees:
May tend to be shy
Don't like to have their "space" invaded
Extreme dislike of conflict
Extreme dislike of criticism
Strong need to receive praise and positive affirmation
May react very emotionally to stressful situations
Have difficulty leaving a bad relationship
Have difficulty scolding or punishing others
Tend to be reserved about expressing their feelings
Perfectionistic tendancies may cause them to not give themselves enough credit
Tendency to blame themselves for problems.