Magic threes

My three biggest strengths are concentrated, goal oriented and thorough. To leverage these qualities in my work, I find it best to be able to steer my own work to a high degree. I don't need others to bite size my work for me - I'm concentrated enough to take in or create requirements and construct work assignments based on them. I'm able to follow multiple assignments and projects through without the need for others to remind me of the goals. Being thorough, I like to follow my own rhythm and take time in the beginning to think things through - executing tends to go faster when I feel I know what I'm doing.

I think the same three are also my biggest weaknesses, in two different ways. Not all work environments are good fits for people like me - in many places these qualities are difficult to fit into the work flow and a much more task oriented, collaborative and yielding attitude is preferred. People like me can often be considered as difficult, interrupting and anti-team spirited. In this sense, it's not just about the individuals qualities, but also (very much) about the environment the individual operates in. The other way these qualities are also my weaknesses is when something happens that pushes me out of balance and I stop displaying these traits. When the balls drop, they drop hard. I get confused, stressed, irritated and unable to see a feasible way out of the situation. It's the other side of the coin.

I consider going to art school, the film studies and the business management studies in Hyper Island as my biggest successes. All three have helped me to learn something big about myself, and all have helped to shape me in a positive way - by adding something. Each one required fairly independent decision making which has also been a useful lesson.

My three biggest mistakes have easily been all the things I have not done. I wanted to become an artist when I was a kid, but I have not tried yet. I might want to do that by photography, but I haven't - yet. And I would like to write children's books, but I don't. Scared of failing, is all it is, but no less devastating.

Learning something worthwhile (even if through failure), accomplishing shared goals together with others and figuring out difficult problems make me happy. Carrying out very detailed work over long periods, being ordered around and being denied access to all the information make me uncomfortable.

I could consider being a common house cat, or a polar bear, or a blue whale.