Maria St. Louis-Sanchez mariastlouis

Build on your professional story by thinking about how you're progressing at Turing. Answer the questions below in your own gist to use your StrengthsFinder themes to add to your story:

Write 1-2 paragraphs about your StrengthsFinder themes: How have you seen yourself using these strengths at Turing? Has your understanding of these strengths changed since you first reflected on them? If so, how?

Being a 'learner' as my greatest strength, I continue to look for answers when I may not know them. This has been very useful as there is a lot I don't know and a lot to learn. I am also always seeking out not just a way of completing a project, but the best way of completing it. This comes hand-in-hand with ideation - also a strength -- which helps me connect the dots between different concepts and put them together. Many times here, I've felt that we're given a little information and expected to put everthing together ourselves. Thankfully, it's been happening so far.

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29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer"

While reading the article "29 Behaviors That Will Make You an Unstoppable Programmer" I realized that they basically listed the same behavior several times: admit when you don't know something and learn it. If you waste time pretending you know something, you won't get your job done and you won't have learned anything new. Instead, if you admit it, you can learn quickly, move on and you won't make the same mistake again. I think the other behavior that was mentioned several times was to be adaptable - you can't think you know everything and insist on doing things one way. Instead you need to know how to change when things aren't working, how to look things up when you hit a road block and, above all, keep on learning no matter what so you can always keep improving. Another great behavior was to stay on top of what's coming - this is by learning how to use tools to make your life easier, by talking and interacting with co-workers to learn from the

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	# Strengths Reflection & Coaching Request


	### Read Through Your Theme Definitions

	1. What words or phrases stick out to you? How would you define each of your top 5 talents in your own words?

	"You are energized by the steady and deliberate journey from ignorance to competence" - This is definitely true. I can be dead tired about to fall asleep, and yet when I start learning something new, I wake up again.