Self-Assessment Interlude: the R2 Self Assessment

In The Peak Performing Professor, Robison recommends the R2 Strengths Assessment.  It cost quite a bit more than I would normally spend, but I'm curious about where this is going.  (Here's hoping that the exchange rate between British Pounds and Dollars is not terrible.)

The R2 works in quadrants.  It promises, in the right hand, to tell me what are my "strengths" as opposed to my "learned behaviors."  (My learned behaviors still rock, but they require effort, concentration, to manifest, whereas my strengths are more organically part of my way of being in the world.)

What can I learn about these strengths, and how do I work within the horizons that they make possible for me?

Well...

This is how the R2 assessment both describes me and advises me to take the best advantage of these strengths.  It feels right to me.

My highest family of strengths is "Being" -- defined in the image below.

Again, this feels right to me.

Where am I weak?

This is my weakest family of strengths, "Motivating" --

Again, this seems consistent with my sense of myself.

And what are my weaknesses?

The report tries to encourage us to minimize the effect of our weaknesses.  While one could develop learned behaviors, I suppose, to overcome a weakness, it may be better to minimize the effect of weaknesses.

The report is long and complicated, and I'll be thinking about it for a while.  Robison suggests that I draw upon it to develop my "mission statement."  That work begins tomorrow.