Carlton Brown

Trotter P.2
How well do you know yourself?

Answer the following questions in one thorough paragraph on this form

1. Where do you see yourself in September of next year? How do you plan to
get there?
a. I see myself in a college or university in September of next school year. I plan
to get there by maintaining good grades and getting better at basketball to
become more attractive to those schools.
2. What kind of life do you want to have in the future- 5, 10, 20 years from now?
a. I want a family based life in the future, preferably 10-15 years ahead.
3. What do you think you need to do to make that life a reality?
a. I think I need to graduate college and be financially stable along with meeting
someone who is also stable and someone I would be spending the rest of my
life with.
4. Why do you think this is what you need to do?
a. I think in order to have children and suit the needs of a family and my own I
would have to have the money to do so.
5. What skills, talents, or strengths do you think you have that will help you
develop this kind of life?
a. I believe basketball and my communication skills will help me find a path to a
career I will enjoy and a wife I will love.
6. What skills, talents, or strengths do you think you need to develop to create
this kind of life?
a. I need to develop a more disciplined mindset and not be so lazy when it
comes to adverse situations.
Now watch the YouTube video in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=474&v=29tJAgc54RA

1. What is your personal capital? What are your strengths, skills, passion,
purpose your problem-solving ability?
a. My strengths are getting along with a wide variety of people, knowing how to
adjust the way I interact with different people.
2. What is your intellectual capital? What is your expertise in one or two
subjects or skills? (These do not have to be exclusively academic subjects)
a. My expertise lies with psychology I read people’s body language extremely
well. I also am an expert in handling a basketball.
3. How can you gain social and financial capital to accomplish the goals you’ve
established for yourself or to create the kind of life you want to have?
a. I can spread my skills by using my personal capital to spread the knowledge
of my intellectual capital.
4. If you could do what you do best every day, what would that be?
a. Love, loving people, animals, and the roller coaster of life.
Character Strengths Test
Read the following two articles for a rationale behind taking the Character Strengths
test:
https://www.michellemcquaid.com/via-survey-character-strengths/
http://positivepsychologynews.com/news/ryan-niemiec/2010052611161

a. Go to the following site and take the VIA Character Strengths test for
YOUTH!t:
www.viacharacter.org

b. DOWNLOAD YOUR RESULTS - SAVE DOCUMENT IN YOUR GOOGLE FOLDER.