About Me

My teachers have been working with us and creating learning experiences for us this year to help us understand ourselves better. We do talk about this in both advisory and in some of my other classes; my history teacher is really into helping us understand our values through the study of history. Through all of these activities, I've learned that:

• I am inspired by people who have made a difference.
• I am action oriented and practical.
• I have an Introverted-Sensing-Thinking-Judging type of personality.
• I have learned that women, and young women, have had important roles in the history of the world.

One of the young women who is currently very inspiring to me is Greta Thunberg. Greta is a young climate activist who has started a worldwide movement of children protesting for climate justice. I follow her at Twitter @GretaThunberg. Here she is speaking at the UN Climate Change COP24 Conference:

Inspired by Others

One of our history class assignments was to research young leaders who we're inspired by. I used the Forum of Young Global Leaders web site and picked one leader from each geographic region who inspired me the most. They are below. Reading about these young global leaders has made me realize that I would like to learn more about how I can pursue a career that makes a difference in the world.

Personality Type

I took an online personality test at MyCareerProject and here are my results:

ISTJ

Introverted: You feel energized and alive when you are deep in intellectual thought, often now aware of the world around you. Often shy when young.

Sensing: You learn about your world using your five senses – see, feel, hear, smell, taste, and feel. You focus on the facts you learn using your five senses.

Thinking: You use facts and logic to make decisions not emotions.

Judging: You judge the correctness or appropriateness of yourself and others with strong conviction or belief.

This is also a funny and interesting site: Epic List of Famous ISTJ Personalities. It's interesting to scroll through and see the famous people who are also ISTJs, but the part that is actually useful is the description of how their career fits the ISTJ personality type.

• ISTJ politicians value working within the system and protecting their country’s traditions.
• As planners and executors, ISTJs do well in a business environment.
• ISTJs, keepers of tradition, are naturally drawn to religious institutions.
• ISTJs make excellent coaches and role players on the field.
• ISTJs in the entertainment field are solid, reliable stars who can always turn in a good performance.
• ISTJs can form the backbone of any well-organized military unit.
• Musicians of the ISTJ types are hard-working and traditional.
• ISTJs’ love for order often drives them to find ways to classify human thought and experience.

Visual Thinking

Something else that made me think about the type of person I am was an activity we did in our history class - we examines historic artifacts and were given the assignment: "If you could choose 3 of these to describe yourself, what would they be? Why?" My teacher had us look at the artifacts from the British Museum's Teaching History with 100 Objects site. The 3 artifacts I chose all symbolize women's empowerment.