Aligning your Strengths to the Stoic Virtues

As part of my coaching, helping my clients to get to Simon Sinek's 'Why' or purpose, I often use the VIA strengths finder as guide to client strengths. Clients often learn a lot about themselves, just with this tool. (It is free on the VIA website)

VIA defines it's strengths in 6 classifications - Wisdom, Transcendence, Courage, Justice, Humanity and Temperance. Stoicism on the other hand has 4 Virtues at it's core - Wisdom, Courage, Justice and Temperance.

So this got me to thinking - how do one's strengths align with the Virtues of Stoicism. Bringing in Claude, it was a great exercise to align the two.

The table on this post is the result. Food for thought, especially where there is no direct alignment, as in the case of Transcendence & Humanity.

Let me know if you want to investigate your own strengths in a coaching context.