#19 "Types of Strengths"

🎍Happy New Year🎍

Are you spending the New Year peacefully?✨

Let's make 2022 a year filled with happiness as well💕

Regarding well-being

I have been deepening my learning,

and this will be the final lesson😊

Thank you so much

for learning along with me💖

Each and every one of us, moving toward happiness!

well-being✨

Now, let's get into our final lesson~♪

Last time, we did#18 "Let's take a happiness test!"

By knowing your own type of happiness,
you gained new discoveries and deepened your self-understanding✨

Today's Theme

⭐️Types of Strengths

Strengths are "virtues"!

In other words,

a person's character, way of thinking, and behavior from a moral perspective

is what they are!

The foundation of the well-being component "PERMA" is

strengths (virtues)!

Source: https://www.jppanetwork.org/what-is-positivepsychology

I also explained this in the article about learning "PERMA"!

👉#6 "The 5 Conditions for Happiness: PERMA"

"Strengths" are "virtues"
(There are 24 in total, including kindness, social intelligence, humor, courage, and honesty.)

"Strengths" support engagement (flow activities), but not only that, they
support the five elements of "PERMA"!
By utilizing your greatest strengths, you will be able to

gain more positive emotions, meaning/purpose, and accomplishment, and build better relationships!

You hear about leveraging "strengths" quite often lately✨

There are also various "strengths" assessments!

The VIA-IS stands for "Values in Action Inventory of Strengths" and

Gallup is also famous!

Here, I will introduce the VIA-IS.

<History of VIA>
In the early 2000s, the VIA Institute supported pivotal work on the nature of positive character traits. A three-year study by 55 scientists led by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman culminated in the groundbreaking text, "Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification." This project also included the creation of two valid and free measurement tools: the VIA Inventory of Strengths (commonly known as the VIA Survey) for adults and the VIA Youth Survey. Source: https://www.viacharacter.org/about

⭐️Click here for the free VIA assessment (You can change the language from English to Japanese)

https://www.viacharacter.org/survey/account/register

You can register an account and take the survey for free!

Adult Survey (for ages 18 and up)
Youth Survey (for ages 9 to 17)
There are two types!

You can save the results from the free download!

Dr. Ryan Niemiec of VIA summarizes the characteristics of
"strengths" simply and clearly using the
3 Es.

・Essential
When you are exercising that "strength," you feel like yourself and feel like your true self.
Because you are expressing your true self, you feel positive.

・Energized
When you are exercising that "strength," you feel energized.
Because you feel energized while doing it, your motivation increases.

・Easy
Exercising that "strength" is easy for you and can be done almost unconsciously.
Because it can be practiced easily and almost unconsciously, it is very efficient and highly productive.

Actions that satisfy all three of these Es are

your "strengths"!.

Reference: https://research.lightworks.co.jp/pos-psych-strength

There are 24 VIA strengths

Everyone possesses all 24 character strengths to varying degrees!

The 24 strengths are divided into 6 categories!

⭐️Knowledge and Wisdom (Creativity, Curiosity, Judgment, Love of Learning, Perspective)
⭐️Courage (Bravery, Perseverance, Honesty, Zest)
⭐️Humanity (Love, Kindness, Social Intelligence)
⭐️Justice (Teamwork, Fairness, Leadership)
⭐️Temperance (Forgiveness, Humility, Prudence, Self-Regulation)
⭐️Transcendence (Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence, Gratitude, Hope, Humor, Spirituality)

【Virtue of Wisdom】

⭐️Creativity

Original, flexible, and talented.
Solves problems.
Thinks of and executes new ways of doing things.

⭐️Curiosity

Take an interest in and explore new things.
Be open to new ideas.

⭐️Intellectual Flexibility

Think things through from every angle.
View things with an open mind.

⭐️Love of Learning

Acquire new skills and expertise.
Systematically increase knowledge.

⭐️Perspective

Provide wise and sensible advice.
Take a big-picture view.

【Virtue of Courage】

⭐️Bravery

Show courage and do not shrink from fear.
Speak up for what is right.

⭐️Perseverance

Be persistent.
Be diligent and finish what you start.

⭐️Honesty

Exist without falsehood.
Be reliable and sincere.

⭐️Zest

Be enthusiastic and energetic, and do not do things half-heartedly.

【Virtue of Humanity】

⭐️Love

Expressing warmth from the heart.
Valuing intimate relationships.

⭐️Kindness

Being generous, doing good for others,
caring, compassionate, and altruistic.

⭐️Social Intelligence

Recognizing the motives and feelings of others.
Knowing what makes people feel at ease.

【Virtue of Justice】

⭐️Teamwork

Being a team player.
Fulfilling responsibilities within a group,
and being loyal.

⭐️Fairness

Being fair and not letting personal feelings distort one's judgment of others.

⭐️Leadership

Organizing group activities,
and empowering others to get things done.

【Virtue of Temperance】

⭐️Forgiveness

Being merciful, accepting the flaws of others,
and giving those who have failed a chance to start over.

⭐️Modesty

Being humble, not boasting about one's own achievements,
and letting them speak for themselves.

⭐️Prudence

Careful, cautious, and
never takes unnecessary risks.

⭐️Self-Regulation

Controls one's feelings and behaviors.
Can manage impulses and emotions.

[Virtue of Transcendence]

⭐️Appreciation of Beauty and Excellence

Feels awe and wonder at beauty.
Recognizes the true value of beauty (goodness) in people.

⭐️Gratitude

Appreciates good things and expresses them.
Feels blessed.

⭐️Hope

Optimistic and future-oriented.

⭐️Humor

Playful and brings smiles to others.
Looks at things in a lighthearted way.

⭐️Spirituality

Finds meaning in life.
Feels a sense of purpose and a connection to the sacred.

Source: VIA Institute on Character

In this survey, based on the ranking of 24 characters, you can obtain
your greatest "strengths"!

The top 5 are called "signature strengths", and they are
your greatest "strengths"✨🤗

Using your strengths is more fun, sustainable, and
leads to happiness✨

The bottom 5 are what become your "weaknesses," but
"weaknesses" can often be lifted up by your "strengths"!

Switch your mindset to using your "strengths" for your "weaknesses"✨

I actually took the survey myself!🤗

There were some surprises, and moments of "Oh, I see!"✨

I was able to deepen my discoveries, realizations, and self-understanding❤️

Thinking, "This is who I am,"

my true self✨

I felt like I had seen it✨

I highly recommend it💖

I would like to introduce my character results in
another article🤗

What are my "strengths"?

I would be happy if this could be a starting point for you💕

👇The site I cited regarding the 3Es of "strengths" is also helpful✨

👇This also provides a simple summary of positive psychology!

Until now, institutional reform and human resource development in Japanese companies have often focused on "improving negative aspects." However, in the coming era, this alone will not be enough. Based on positive psychology, it is necessary to adapt to a changing society and lead to sustainable growth by utilizing positive aspects, in other words, "strengths."

[Summary]

⭐️The characteristics of your "strengths" are,

Essential, energizing, and easy!

⭐️Overcome "weaknesses" with "strengths"!

⭐️Using your "strengths" leads to happiness!

This is the final lesson on this topic,

next time,#20 "Reflecting on Learning about Well-being"

I would like to provide a general review✨😊

Look forward to it~♪

<Back Issues>

#1 "Let's Think About Well-being"
#2 "You Don't Have to Be 100% Positive"
#3 "Is Happiness Similar to Dieting?!👀"
#4 "The Study of Positive Psychology"
#5 "Resilience and PERMA?!"

#6 "The 5 Conditions for Happiness: PERMA"
#7 "What is Flow?"
#8 "Is Concentration Mindfulness?!"
#9 "A Switch to Change Your Mindset"
#10 "Can You Manage Stress?!"

#11 "What Does Optimism Really Mean?!"
#12 "Let's Review What We've Covered So Far!"
[Excerpt] "The Only Happiness of Its Kind in the World"
#13 "Let's Boost Our Resilience!"
#14 "Let's Train Our Resilience Muscles!"
#15 "Want to Try a Life Satisfaction Scale Test?"

#16 "The Four Factors of Happiness"
#17 "Can't You Be Happy Without All Four?"
#18 "Let's Try a Personal Happiness Test!"

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