Jacob took the StrengthsQuest assessment and learned his top strengths are responsibility, positivity, achiever, learner, and woo. He agreed with parts of positivity and achiever that fit his personality of being optimistic and driven to accomplish tasks. However, he disagreed with aspects of learner because he only enjoys learning about subjects that interest him, and woo because he is hesitant around strangers. In school, he struggles with responsibility by procrastinating but ensures he learns material. His strengths help his relationships by being reliable and cheering others up, though positivity could be seen as nosiness. He takes charge in groups for class and prioritizes attendance and work completion with responsibility and being an achiever. Overall,

1. Jacob Eslick
2/1/15
Cornerstone
Roxanne Heimann
“StrengthsQuest Paper”
Finding out strengths are a beneficial part of figuring out who we are better.
With my strengths there were parts I knew about me and then there were others
that I did not think would have been about me. I found out my strengths by taking
StrengthsQuest. After taking StrengthsQuest, my results were responsibility,
positivity, achiever, learner, and woo. Many of the characteristics of these strengths
I agreed with, but there were a few things about them that I disagreed with also.
With these strengths I can how they affect my relationships and academic life.
With my strengths I completely agreed with positivity and achiever. I believe
in what they said for positivity where, “You are generous with praise, quick to smile,
and always on the lookout for the positive in the situation.” Even if something goes
bad I can find the positive of everything that happens in my life. I always love to
make people’s days and one way I do that is by being positive about any they have
going on also. For achiever, this was the biggest one I agreed with. “By the end of the
day you must achieve something tangible in order to feel good about yourself.” I
agree with this statement completely because I am not the person that can just sit
around and get nothing accomplished. Once I get something accomplished I can
relax, but accomplishments keep me driven. While I agree a lot with all my
strengths, I found the other three strengths to have things I disagreed with.
The biggest strength that I felt I disagreed with was learner. This started with
the opening statement, “You love to learn,” and “whatever the subject, you will

2. always be drawn to the process of learning.” While I do like to learn, I only find it in
subjects that interest me. When I had my roommate read over my results, he
believed that all of the strengths fit me besides part of learner. I completely agreed
because it has to be a subject that I am interested in. With the strength woo, I
believed I am that person besides a couple aspects. “Strangers are rarely
intimidating to you.” I am I very sociable person, but I am not the person that can
just go up to a stranger and easily talk to them. While I like to meet new people, it
just is a different way that I enjoy doing this. I am a little more hesitant than what
the description of woo says. For the last strength, responsibility, I am a very
responsible person, but when it comes to getting work done right away I am not like
that. I do always like to see tasks through and definitely agree with most of this
strength.
There are many situations where I see these strengths come into play. When
I am working at a job, I do not like the feeling of not knowing what to do or how
something works. When I come to this obstacle, I always make sure I understand
how it is done. When it comes to a strength I feel I’m successful in, I feel it is woo. I
am a very outgoing person, so when I go out on a weekend, I try to meet as much
people as I can. I love the idea of having many friends and knowing who people are.
While I am usually hesitant of going up to a stranger at first, I will end up getting to
know them and glad I did.
When it comes to school I have one of the most challenges. I am a very
responsible person, but I hate doing schoolwork and always put it off until the last
minute. I am never the responsible person and getting the work done right away. I

3. wish I was like this because I feel that would be a great addition to my strength of
responsibility. The other part of class is the learning process. This is where I do not
“love” to learn. If it does not interest me I have a hard time paying attention and do
not try as hard as I should. I will make sure I learn the material, but probably not as
good as I should.
When it comes to my personal relationships I feel that all my strengths help
with whatever type of relationship is. Why I feel this is because when someone asks
me to do something, I’m responsible and they can trust me to get it done. With all
my friends, when they are having a bad day, I am very positive and trying to cheer
them up. I do not like seeing an upset friend and find it to be my job to find out the
problem and fix it. With positivity, it also can be a challenge to a relationship with
my friends. When I am trying to be there for someone, I may look like I’m just trying
to get into their business and being nosy. Which is not the case, but I tend to run into
this problem every once in a while. The biggest implication of my strength on my
personal relationships is woo. I like to meet a lot of people so I gain a lot of friends.
When I go out on a weekend, I will have over 10 people always wanting to go with
me. This always creates an awesome time and creates a closer bond to all those
friends.
When it comes to make academic life my strengths do relate. When working
in groups I am always a high achiever. So when it comes to it, I like to take charge of
the group. I always feel that when I do this then we work better as a group because I
can get us on the right track. I feel I am very responsible with my academic life.
When it comes to attendance and getting work done, I always make sure it is

4. accomplished one way or another. With attendance I hat being late and feel I always
need to be at class to learn. Most of my strengths make sense in my academic life,
but responsibility and achiever are the biggest two.
With my strengths there were aspects I knew about me, but there was more
than I never thought of on a deeper scale. I agreed and disagreed with parts of my
strengths, but in the long run that describe me the best you can. Knowing my
strengths will help me understand how to improve both my personal relationships
and academic life and creating stronger ties to those strengths.