Instinctively, you usually feel satisfied with life when your innovative thinking style is appreciated. You automatically pinpoint trends, notice problems, or identify opportunities many people overlook. Armed with this knowledge, you usually devise alternative courses of action. By evaluating the circumstances, available resources, and/or the potential consequences of each plan, you can select the best option. By nature, you long to know more so you remain on the cutting edge of your field or areas of interest. Your inventive mind usually generates more possibilities than you can handle or fund. Nonetheless, you are committed to acquiring knowledge and/or skills. You study everything involved in a situation and conceive entirely new ways of seeing or doing things. What you already know prompts you to ask questions and delve even deeper into a subject or problem. It’s very likely that you commonly opt to work by yourself. You trust your talents, knowledge, and skills to identify problems. You consider numerous solutions before you pinpoint the most appropriate course of action. Questions and answers materialize without a lot of effort on your part. Driven by your talents, you have a knack for identifying problems. You spontaneously generate alternatives for solving them. You probably consider the pros and cons of each option. You often factor into your thinking prevailing circumstances and available resources. You feel life is good when you sense you are choosing the best course of action.

It’s very likely that you think a lot about the coming months, years, or decades. You gravitate to projects and study subjects that promise to shape the future. You enjoy talking about possibilities that exist only in your imagination. You probably worry about being left behind if what you know and do were no longer valued or needed. You prefer to be a pioneer and an inventor. Driven by your talents, you envision what you can accomplish tomorrow, next week, next month, next year, or in the coming decades. Your goals and aspirations motivate you to keep moving forward. The tension you feel when a deadline is fast approaching forces you to concentrate on the right activities, discard irrelevant information, and not waste time on intriguing distractions. Your one aim is to reach your objectives. Instinctively, you are an individual contributor who thinks about the goals you want to reach in the coming months, years, or decades. Your imagination ordinarily pulls you into the future even as you work on current assignments. Because of your strengths, you have a capacity for envisioning what the coming months, years, or decades could, should, or will be like. Frequently you are prompted to transform your ideas into things you can touch, taste, see, smell, or hear.

Because of your strengths, you probably register for the most difficult rather than the easiest classes. You likely take courses from teachers who have a reputation for being tough and demanding. You ordinarily have great faith in your ability to earn the top grade in these instructional situations. Instinctively, you work hard to be the best or "number one." When your performance is compared to everyone else's, you aim to win. If you were an Olympic athlete, being presented with a silver or bronze medal would be a huge disappointment. Only the gold medal in your chosen event would make you happy. Driven by your talents, you are driven to be the very best. This explains why you continue to forge ahead in the face of difficulties or even near exhaustion. When comparisons are made, you yearn to be the winner. Your motivation to excel likely matches your need to be declared trustworthy, knowledgeable, and accomplished. Chances are good that you have identified your talents and strengths. You know the things you do quite well. You waste very little time mulling over your limitations, shortcomings, or failures. Your strengths allow you to capture first-place honors again and again. You refuse to concentrate much energy on areas where you must struggle just to be average. "What's the point?" you ask yourself.

By nature, you have a rich vocabulary upon which to draw. The words you choose often expand and challenge your listeners' or readers' thinking. Because of your strengths, you relish the nuances and intricacies of language. Your sophisticated or specialized vocabulary allows you to choose words for their power and clarity. Whether speaking or writing, you convey what you are thinking and feeling in a forceful, matter-of-fact manner. Usually no one has to second-guess -- that is, wonder about -- the true meaning of your intentions, messages, expectations, or orders. Chances are good that you favor conversations where information, facts, or data are considered objectively -- that is, emotions do not distort the truth. You pose questions, evaluate answers, and figure out how things work. Reducing an idea, theory, or process to its most basic parts provides you with many insights. You are likely to archive -- that is, preserve -- your discoveries so you can use them later. Instinctively, you contribute many innovative ideas to the group during brainstorming sessions. You tend to be highly imaginative when proposals are fully heard and any criticism is reserved for a later time.

Chances are good that you pay attention to what others think. You make them feel valued. You validate their ideas by talking about them. Typically people sense that you appreciate what they say. This probably explains why many people enjoy spending time with you. By nature, you energize others so they feel enthusiastic about a position you have taken, a conclusion you have reached, or an innovative idea you have proposed. As soon as you resolve to do something, you typically announce, "Let's get started right away. We can do this!" It’s very likely that you compel individuals or groups to quickly move into action by using official-sounding words. Your extensive vocabulary also contains hard-to-understand terminology that sets you apart. Thus, you speak with an air of authority that you often fail to hear. So, when you display impatience and say, "Let's get started right now!" many people refrain from questioning your decision. Instinctively, you make people feel valued by listening carefully to what they are saying. Later you can refer to one of their key thoughts or questions. This simple act tells individuals that you take seriously what they say. When you can contribute to someone's sense of well-being, your own life becomes much more satisfying.