Nicholas Hill Academic and Career Strengths

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Nicholas Hill Academic and Career Strengths

Competition

Intentionally surround yourself with competitive people.

Establish measurable and meaningful academic goals. Use these to force yourself to reach the highest levels of productivity, mastery, or quality.

Play competitive sports. Risk being a walk-on to win a spot on an athletic team.

Find a career that is both competitive and personally satisfying.

Choose work environments that challenge you and in which your success can be quantified with scores, ratings, and rankings. Avoid situations lacking meaningful, objective measurement criteria.

Ideation

As you read an idea, use it as a stimulus for your own further thought and creativity.

As you study, think of different concepts, and invent new ways to present the materials in writing or in graphics. This will invigorate your mind as well as the minds of others.

Take on an independent research project in which you can generate and explore numerous ideas.

You will be able to find new and better ways of doing things within the organization.

Build on your creativity to find a career that encourages you to think freely and express your ideas.

Strategic

Seek a leadership role in a group. You see the path to success more clearly than many.

Search for ways to express your creative thinking.

Participate in research, or develop your own research project.

List the various paths possible in your future so you can give careful thought to each one.

Choose careers that will allow you to be a leader and voice your ideas.

Input

Schedule time for seeking information that goes beyond what is required

Be aware that the more you know, the more likely it is that others will seek you out for information and see you as highly credible.

You enjoy gathering information, possible even from reading a dictionary or encyclopedia.

You will want to work in an environment that expects you to be continuously engaged in learning.

You will enjoy a career where you are always on the cutting edge of knowledge and where you are stimulated by ideas and creative approaches to problems and issues.

Futuristic

Don’t let other people’s negative comments about your dreams dissuade you from reaching toward them.

Take risks to gain new insights, even if they are out of your comfort zone. Set academic goals to project yourself into a successful future.

Try to truly understand what you’re studying; don’t just memorize. Always relate what you’re studying to where you see yourself in the future.

Find an organization where you can help create the future, painting vivid pictures for those who work there, helping them see the role they will take in making this vision become reality.

Dream big. Write down your dreams, and continue to make progress toward your biggest dreams.