During the journal 1 assignment, I discovered these personality traits and learning styles: - Reflective - Sequential - Verbal - Sensible In a career, STEM or otherwise, a worker must reflective, diligent, and thoughtful. When working with coworkers, an employee must be patient, cooperative and understanding. I would like to be a chemist, and I found some traits of chemists and compared them to my own traits. Table 1: Chemist personality traits, traits shared by chemists and I, and my personality traits. Green is how the different trait can be beneficial. Red is how the different trait can be harmful. Chemist Traits Shared Traits My Traits Excellent communication skills Logical Prefers solitary work (must work with others) Can make quick decisions Can analyze data Reflective learner (reviewing processes and experiments) Requires reflective and active learning Patient Prefer results on paper before executing action (may prevent errors) (some things must be executed first) Teamwork …show more content…
However, I can improve a lot with teamwork and presentations. Table 2: My traits from Journal 1 and how they would be helpful and harmful in a chemistry career. Trait Beneficial to success Detrimental to success Reflective I will be able to review and experiment and understand why it was or was not successful. I will not be able to anticipate things that are not planned in experiments. Sensible I will be able to remember non-abstract facts and concepts. I will not be able to grasp intangible or abstract concepts in chemistry. Verbal I will be able to process and remember data that is given to me. I will not be able to understand concepts that can be explained better visually than verbally. Sequential I will be able to identify what step in a process was preformed incorrectly. I will not be able to get away from the sequential order of a process and look at the big picture to comprehend where the process went