Wisdom is the ability to combine knowledge, experience, historical perspectives, common sense, discretion, and insight to solve important and difficult questions. You’re able to look at the bigger picture and provide judicious and practical counsel to those caught up in the moment.
The virtue of reason compels you to use logic and scientific analysis to form theories, conclusions, judgments, or inferences. It gives you the power to acquire knowledge either by direct understanding of first principles or by argument. You have the ability to objectively diagnose complex problems.
If you’re pragmatic, as you strategically work towards your goals you look closely at the relationship between the means and ends, trying to anticipate the practical results of your actions. If it isn’t practical, sensible, or useful, then you don’t do it.
Ingenuity is the quality of being cleverly inventive or resourceful. It is struggling to see things from nontraditional perspectives and finding creative ways to solve problems. With ingenuity you desire to bring something new into the world with your inventions or innovations.
Foresight is the perception of the significance and nature of events before they have occurred. You are able to form a mental image of something that is not yet real. With this vision, you look forward to the future and take strategic steps to make it turn out as you have envisioned.
Expertise consists of those characteristics, skills, and knowledge you have that set you apart from novices. You have an extensive knowledge or ability in a particular area of study. You’ve worked hard to develop competency in this area by virtue of training, education, profession, publication, or experience.
Efficiency is optimizing the use of resources such as energy, time, and money to get the maximum benefit. You look for weaknesses in the system and then create elegant ways to increase clarity and precision. You are able to accomplish a job with a minimum expenditure of limited resources.
Curiosity involves actively recognizing and pursuing challenging opportunities and seeking out new knowledge or new skills. Curiosity can be broken down into three categories: interest, novelty seeking, and openness to new experience. It drives individuals to explore the boundaries of human knowledge.
The virtue of confidence is generally described as a state of being certain, either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct, or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective given the circumstances. You have a firm belief in your own powers, abilities, or capacities.
The virtue of concentration gives you the ability to give your attention exclusively to one object. You are able to focus your mind and energies to the point where you become engrossed in and consumed by your work. In fact, you often have a difficult time attending to other less-intriguing activities.
