Excerpt from Gallup’s interview with Father James Mallon
Talents in Shadow
This non-inclusive list was created to get you thinking of how to avoid living in the shadow of your talents. They are an anecdotal collection from coaches and others. Talk to family and friends. They often see our ‘shadows’ before we do.
- Achiever: workaholic, overcommitted, ruthless, unrestrained…
- Activator: impatient, driven, obstinate…
- Adaptability: submissive, reactionary, unreasonable, directionless…
- Analytical: self-possessed, critical, nit-picking, never satisfied…
- Arranger: critical, demanding, offensive, nonconforming…
- Belief: dogmatic, elitist, stubborn, opinionated, dogged, goody-goody…
- Command: bossy, abrupt, inflexible, stubborn, insensitive…
- Communication: garrulous, verbose, long-winded, talkative…
- Competition: strong-willed, unimaginative, counterintuitive, inexperienced…
- Connectedness: idealistic, easy to take advantage of, adolescent, naïve…
- Consistency: stubborn, disinterested, strict, uncooperative, unrealistic…
- Context: closed-minded, unimaginative, counterintuitive, inexperienced…
- Deliberative: aloof, withdrawn, introverted, unfriendly, time-waster…
- Developer: naïve, unwise, unrealistic, easy to take advantage of…
- Discipline: obstinate, rigid, mechanical, impersonal, detached, unrealistic…
- Empathy: soft, over-involved, gullible, susceptible, naïve…
- Focus: absorbed, intense, stressed, stubborn, single-minded…
- Futuristic: dreamer, impractical, unrealistic, unreasonable, irrational, misleading…
- Harmony: irresolute, indecisive, weak, non-confrontational, flattering…
- Ideation: dreamer, unrealistic, self-absorbed, introspective…
- Includer: indiscriminate, naïve, adolescent, gullible, unsystematic…
- Individualization: overly-patient, indecisive, undiscerning…
- Input: irresolute, indecisive, faltering, vacillating, slow to act, cluttered…
- Intellection: lover, bookish, smug, academic, non-productive…
- Learner: bookish, uninspiring, unrelated, academic, non-productive…
- Maximizer: picky, demanding, challenging, uncompromising…
- Positivity: insincere, naïve, superficial, dishonest, Pollyanna…
- Relator: cliquish, clannish, plays favourites, disingenuous, hypocritical…
- Responsibility: micro-managing, perfectionist, stickler, obsessive…
- Restorative: critical, punitive, negative, focused on weakness…
- Self-assurance: arrogant, conceited, proud, stubborn, persistent, self-righteous…
- Significance: self-absorbed, needy self-centred, insecure, uneasy…
- Strategic: disrespectful, offensive, invasive, belittling, impatient…
- WOO: fake, insincere, dishonest, shallow, compromising…