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Just took the “Leading From Your Strengths” test online. Our team at Grace is going to go through it.

No real shocks here - I’m off the scale as a Lion and Otter, bottom of the barrel as a retriever and beaver.

What does that mean? At best, I’m these things:

Grant is good at creating enthusiasm in others and to have and make many friends.
Strong sense of self-confidence
Does not like close supervision
Outgoing person - feels at home with strangers
Extremely high trust level
Optimistic
Likes to develop people
Good sense of urgency
Encourages people to be open
Must be involved in the decision-making process
May misjudge the abilities of others
Makes quick decisions
Believes rules exist to serve rather than to be followed

At worse - I’m a talkative, arrogant, fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants, rule-breaking pain in the arse who hates supervision.

What is more humorous is that as a psych major in college I lost count as to how many of these personality tests I’ve taken and the many different names different people give to the same characteristic. Meyers-Briggs, DISC, and others attempt to quantify and explain the human psyche.

The larger question is that the Lion and the Otter are on different sides of the food chain. Of course, I’m guessing there are very few actual lions that ever encountered an actual otter. So I guess we are all safe.