Alexander Lindsey Strengths

Choose a job that requires a lot of analysis. Obvious career fields such as accounting, finance, law, engineering, sciences, business management, computer technology, and journalism are worthy of consideration.

Refuse to sacrifice your passion for a field because others say it does not require linear, sequential thinking. Prove them wrong.

Examine data, collect facts, and read material for discussions. Anticipate problems. Ask questions to discover others’ perspectives on issues. Clarify your own position.

Notice the subtle nuances of a subject. Question the authors’ conclusions. Flag topics for scrutiny. Refuse to accept blindly whatever appears on the printed page.

Select courses that will use your talent for critical thinking. Be open to the sciences and mathematics as well as literature, history, and the arts.

Choose a career in which you and others can benefit from your careful thinking and deliberation.

You will be a good questioner of actions, helping others to think through their decisions before moving ahead too quickly.

Attend all lectures and class sessions — make sure you don’t miss anything. Be thorough in your preparation for a class by reading ahead and reviewing class notes to avoid being caught off guard.

When taking a test, go through the questions slowly, concentrating on the ones you are most sure of first. Address the others later so that you have time to complete the exam.

You are most comfortable in classes where you are well aware of expectations, where the discussions are serious, and where the time is used well. Before you enroll in a class, get the opinions of peers who have already taken the class.

Shadow employees who continually respond to the varied requests of their customers, tourists, guests, and patients.

Reflect upon “wrong fit” jobs you have had in the past. Determine whether your Adaptability talent was viewed as a plus or as a liability.

Live in the moment. Calm yourself before an exam with positive self-talk. Recall your personal history of dealing with surprises on tests.

Challenge yourself by taking courses that involve experiments. Compare your flexibility to that of various classmates. Notice how you make adjustments to produce desired outcomes.

Designate places to which you can retreat when you need to give your full attention to your studies. Choose venues where the potential for interruptions and extraneous noise is significantly reduced.

You will enjoy a job in which you serve a stable group of customers who come back often.

Consider coaching, teaching, managing, supervising, and caregiving as possible outlets for your talent.

Create various lines of communication with friends in your classes, such as verbal, phone, and e-mail, and help each other when one of you has to miss a class.

Discuss class lectures with friends.

Become a mentor and always have a mentor.

Seek out environments that provide security, compatibility, and low risk.

You work well and are helpful in team project environments. You help others work together even more productively. You help promote emotional stability and calmness in the group.

Fill a mediator role with your friends.

Read with an open mind. Give the author a chance to explain himself or herself. Find agreement between the author’s ideas and your own, and expand from there.

You perform best in an environment where people listen to one another and seek to understand each other, rather than force their ideas on one another.