Wisdom

Wisdom can be defined as a cognitive strength in the gaining and use of logic and reason in order to self-enhance. Wisdom can be broken down into more discrete parts in order to allow us to study it more closely (and less nebulously 😁)

Creativity – a person who produces new, adaptive behaviors, ideas, art, and scientific advancement.

Curiosity – a person who is strongly motivated to experience and acquire new knowledge and information.

Open-mindedness – a person who looks at a problem from all angles and thinks things through, using all available resources, including time for further consideration of the issue that may be at hand. It is important to denote this from dispositional open-mindedness (or open-mindedness when it comes to personality)

Love of learning – a person who is motivated to master new skills and topics. This person especially goes about things in a systematized way. Historically, this has been referred to as achievement motivation, or competence motivation

Perspective – A person who can provide counsel by seeing the big picture, making balanced and thoughtful judgments through careful consideration of the options.

Courage

Courage can be defined as the ability one has to willfully overcome obstacles that stand in their way to self-enhance.

Authenticity – A person who speaks their truth. This can be about one’s self or others.

Bravery – One who strongly faces any threat that they may have.

Perseverance – A person who finishes tasks unrelentingly, despite facing opposing forces.

Zest – A person who approaches life with excitement, enthusiasm, energy, and vigor.

Humanity

Humanity is largely an interpersonal strength, but one shouldn’t approach this value solely in this way. One might consider some of these traits as they involve oneself, as well.

Kindness – A kind person does good deeds for others and takes care of them.

Love – a person with love will nurture relationships in others and oftentimes has these feelings reciprocated.

Social intelligence – a person with social intelligence considers the thoughts and feelings of others in order to fit different social molds and paradigms.

Justice

Justice is another interpersonal trait, but in its defining, I again encourage readers to consider justice introspectively.

Fairness – a fair person treats people similarly, regardless of gender, sexual orientation, race, religious beliefs, or creed. This development of this character strength often has a lot to do with one’s upbringing.

Leadership – a person who organizes groups and fosters good and strong relationships between its members is a good leader. Of course, a leader is also charged with the handling of tasks that may be related to its group, and ensuring that they get done.

Teamwork – A person who is a good member of a team and shows loyalty and fair division of tasks has this character strength.

Temperance

Temperance may be harder to define, but often it is defined as abstaining from excess.

Forgiveness – an person who shows forgiveness is not vengeful, but even shows mercy in the face of wrong-doing. Forgiveness has a slew of other variables involved with it and much psychological research has been done on it, so keep an eye out for a post on the psychological aspects of forgiveness.

Modesty – A modest person is humble and allows for their achievements to speak on their behalf. A modest person understands that they are not more worthwhile than others.

Prudence – A prudent person isn’t a risk-taker and avoids short-term gains. Conversely, they strive for the long-term gains, even though they may require further effort.

Self-regulation – A person who self-regulates takes control and accountability for their thoughts, emotions, appetites, and impulses. A keyword here is discipline.

Transcendence

Transcendence can be defined as reaching beyond ourselves to maintain a connection to the universe. To many that may be the unknown, and to a few, that may mean nothing at all. Still, one can be transcendent and even an atheist, despite the inclusion of the character strength of religiousness.

Appreciation of beauty and excellence – A person who has high trait appreciation of beauty is a person who notices and appreciates beauty and excellence in life and artifice.

Gratitude – A person who has high trait gratitude takes time to contemplate and express their gratitude. A distinction is made between personal gratitude, which can be defined as being grateful towards a person for their gift or even for their existence. Transpersonal is thankfulness to the universe or a deity, or maybe even nobody in particular, when regarding something that one appreciates. If I’m an atheist, I can still have transpersonal gratitude towards the existence of birds and trees and… While I have personal gratitude towards those who have had a hand in establishing and growing a flourishing steemit community.

Hope – a hopeful person strives for the best, and expects to achieve it.

Humor – A person with the character strength of humor brings smiles to other people through playfulness, laughing, joking, and pointing out the comedy in the challenges of life.

Religiousness – A person with the positive trait of religiousness or spirituality is one that maintains beliefs about a higher purpose and meaning of existence.