What I learnt from a lightbulb moment

I had a lightbulb moment recently.

One of those moments of sudden realisation and enlightenment that don’t come that often. I’ve had a lot of them since I discovered my strengths, but this one was pretty special.

You might be thinking I was sitting around a camp fire singing kumbaya at the time. But I was cooking supper in my kitchen listening to a podcast series by Gallup called Theme Thursday.

They were talking about the StrengthsFinder theme of Relator.

People with the strength of Relator are pulled towards people they already know and are comfortable with intimacy. They get pleasure from being with their close friends and want to understand their feelings, goals, fears and dreams and for theirs to be understood in return. It’s me all over …