Welcome to the Present Authoring: Virtues component of the Self-Authoring suite. This exercise has been designed to allow you to do an in-depth analysis of some of the positive aspects or virtues of your personality.
The exercise may take up to three hours to complete. You may quit the exercise any time by clicking Exit/Home or shutting down your browser. If the current page is a page you have been writing on, remember to click Save before exiting. The text that you entered on previous pages will have already been saved.
You can come back to the exercise later, and resume your work. Just go to www.selfauthoring.com, click the Subscriber Login button (top right) and choose the Present Authoring: Virtues exercise. When you return, all your previous work will be waiting for you, and you will be taken to the last point in the exercise you had completed.
To complete the following exercise, there are a number of things that are useful to know (you may have encountered this information previously if you have completed the faults analysis exercise, but it might be worthwhile to review it):
Everybody's personality is composed of two higher-order traits. The first higher-order trait is known as plasticity, and can be thought of as the tendency to be flexible, exploratory, curious and quick to adapt. The second higher-order trait is known as stability, and can be thought of as the tendency to be structured, organized, emotionally stable and focused.
Plasticity, the first higher-order trait, can be further broken down into two sub-traits: Extraversion (the tendency to be enthusiastic and dominant) and Openness (the tendency to be open-minded and intelligent).