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Personal Narrative: My Five Dominant Themes
My five dominant themes were deliberative, context, strategic, responsibility, and analytical. I wasn’t surprised by any of these strengths, especially they seemed to describe myself quite well. I feel like these strengths are quite consistent with myself, especially the deliberative and context themes. The deliberative theme is most like me because I am a serious person who is very careful and proceeds with caution when doing things. This theme also mentions how life is not a popularity contest, which is something I most certainly agree with, because I do not necessarily care if someone likes me or not. The context themes looks at the past in order to progress into the future. I use past events as reference of what I should do, and when I don’t have a past reference I am very careful in whatever I do next, because I don’t know what will follow. …show more content…
The strategic theme discussed how I look at different scenarios and question “what if?” situations, when making decisions. I do this on a daily basis, which may be a bad thing because sometime I look at many different outcomes to the point where I feel overloaded and I worry about these alternate scenarios. This theme is quite helpful when making decisions, especially when I use an objective view. Responsibility is my other theme, which I am very much alike, because I stick to what I will say I will do, and I will follow thorough and commit to anything I take on. The results also mention how I am obsessed with doing things right, which is probably why I am a perfectionist most of the time. My last dominant theme is analytical, which is about being objective and challenging other people’s ideas. Sometimes this theme can lead me to seem harsh, which I think I get a lot. In reality, I try not to seem harsh, but I think it is important to challenge ideas and be objective, especially if I have to make

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