The First Six

When I first did the executive function self assessment last year, I didn’t really learn anything I didn’t already kind of know about myself. In fact it just confirmed a lot of things I already knew particularly about my own weaknesses. but I was surprised by how helpful it was for me, especially as a teacher and parent, to just to think about myself in terms of my own strengths. I may not be the best at finishing project but I am really good at starting them, I am terrible at remembering numbers and dates but I do really well at keeping a level head in stressful situations and my flexibility helps me in lots of situations . I started to think of all these things almost as a trade off. Each of these portraits were made using the data from a real persons executive functions self assessment ( thank you to all the amazing friends who have been doing these!) Only a few weeks in and I have already learned so much from this project! I have found so many people have commented something along the same lines I did, I wasn’t surprised by my weaknesses but I was surprised by my strengths. In one of the books I read last year it talked about how we can use our strengths to support our weaknesses and that really stuck with me. Maybe we all need to start paying a little more attention to our strengths. #efportraits #100daysofefportraits