There are many different personality and trait surveys available—yet one major oversight of most of these assessments is that they fail to define emotive qualities that span your entire way of being. Determining your character strengths in comparison, is to find out the basis of how you optimally operate and how you utilize and implement all your other skills and traits. Further, most look to assessments to find out what the best job they could be placed in would be, but seldom do people survey themselves to find out what parts of them, when cultivated, will lead to more fulfillment and happiness regardless of where they utilize them (key: once discovered, use them in every area of your life).