Am I Retarded For My Top Values To Overlap With My Top Strengths?

[EdgeGod900]

Just noticed that my top values are just specific examples of my top strengths: for example, Beauty as my strength, and my values related to it are Nature, and Being.

Is this shit normal?

Edited yesterday at 06:21 AM by EdgeGod900

[Deziree]

I am missing something in this post. You're probably conflating strengths with values. Values are something you hold on to and they are true to your core identity and behaviour. Strengths are something you're already good at. Differentiate them neatly. Strengths can refer to different domains of life. Your values can dictate your strengths to a certain extent. But that's like running on a script. You'll have to expand your values beyond your strengths.

If your strengths and values are identical, then you’re living in a feedback loop. Real growth usually means valuing things you don’t naturally have, not just celebrating what already comes easy. That’s where transformation starts, when your values stretch you instead of flattering you.

[EdgeGod900]

@Deziree just so we're on the same page: did you take Leo's Life purpose course, and did the contemplative questions required for the values, and the VIA strength assessment?

[Jannes]

@EdgeGod900 I think there are reasons for why its likely that values and strength match in both directions. 

If you care about something you put more energy into it and naturally become better at it. 

When you are naturally better at something, when it gives you a survival edge, then you are likely valuing it more. 

[Joshe]

I think this is largely normal and common. 

I think a good many of our values grow out of our strengths. When we use our strengths, it feels good and feels like "us". Over time, we unconsciously learn to value things that let us keep expressing our strengths.

Maybe we value things that let us be who we already are. 

[Realms of Wonder]

Authenticity is my top value and strength, others mix and match here and there. I dont see an issue with it

[UnbornTao]

Why wouldn't it be? 

Still, I'd try to pin your strength down to an action or something more specific. As a term, beauty sounds more like a value, since it's a bit abstract and ill-defined. What do you mean by beauty, exactly? Drawing, decorating, rearranging patterns, photography, writing poetry, creating music, developing software? What are you skillful at or passionate about that makes you regard beauty as your main strength? 

Edited 11 hours ago by UnbornTao