Take the VIA Survey at www.viacharacter.org to learn more about your character strengths (note: you’ll need to create a free account to access the survey). It should take approximately 10 minutes for you to complete.
Now tell me about a previous achievement of which you’re genuinely proud (it doesn’t need to be work related), or a time when you really outdid yourself. Which of your top character strengths do you think helped you achieve this outcome?
My top character strength is creativity, and one of my achievements was during one of my courses, for the final project we had to come up with a creative way to describe St john’s. I was ill that time so I went to class a day before the project was due and this project was worth 20% of my final grade. I had only a few hours, so I decided to make a poster on it, and describe st john;s and its surroundings and a small summary of the culture. Turns out the professor loved my idea as everyone else decided to write an essay on this final project and gave me a 19/20 in this project.
It is true that I work best under pressure and it helped me complete a task which took everyone 2 weeks to do.
However, I also learnt to not leave everything for last minute.