100 Most Important Human Traits

Numbers 6 Through 10

This comes from a list of the 100 Most Important Human Traits as printed in the Investor’s Business Daily Newspaper a few year’s back.

After listing each trait, I’m going to define the key words from each trait. Your task is to think about these traits and make the appropriate changes in your life to put them into place.

6. Adaptability

Adaptability – Ability to adjust or modify fittingly. Ability to adjust oneself to different conditions and environments.

7. Ambition (commensurate with ability)

Ambition – Earnest desire for some type of achievement or distinction, as power, honor, fame, or wealth, and the willingness to strive for its attainment

Commensurate – Corresponding in amount, magnitude, or degree. Proportionate or adequate.

Ability – Competence in an activity or occupation because of one’s skill, training, or other qualification.

8. Analytical thinking

Analysis – The process as a method of studying the nature of something or of determining its essential features and their relations.

Thinking – Thoughtful, reflective. Thought, judgment, reflection. Rational, reasoning.

9. Appreciating art/music

Appreciate – To be grateful or thankful for. To value or regard highly. To be fully conscious of; be aware of; detect.

Art – The quality, production, expression, or realm, according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful, appealing, or of more than ordinary significance.

Music – An art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.

10. Believing the best of others

Belief – Confidence in the truth or existence of something not immediately susceptible to rigorous proof. Confidence; faith; trus.

Best – Of the highest quality, excellence, or standing. Most advantageous, suitable, or desirable.

Others – Different or distinct from the one mentioned or implied. Different in nature or kind.

Until next time, may you find your path by walking it . . .

Stanley F. Bronstein

Agent of SuperChange