The Gifts Compass Inventory (GCI) will help you find your “super power”—those gifts that come most naturally to you.

Especially in the first half of life, engaging your best gifts will help build your self-confidence and skill. These are the gifts that you ought to engage in your work. Follow your enthusiasm for them and let them guide you to work you can love.

Your gifts are clues to the life you are being called to, but they can be a bit like water to a fish. They have been with you so long, you may hardly know they are there. Daydreaming, for example, may distract you from getting practical things done and can therefore be seen as negative. But did you know that daydreaming is an indication that you likely possess highly creative and imaginative gifts? J. K. Rowling was daydreaming on a train one day and saw the whole idea for Harry Potter in her imagination. If not for her daydreaming, we may never have learned the difference between a wizard and a muggle!

The GCI will help to clarify how you are naturally gifted, but who you are, the unique person (or personality) you are, is far greater than your gifts. A central aim of life is to unify the many disparate elements of who you are. As you do, you will naturally begin to circumnavigate the whole compass of gifts. 

That unification of personality—a process that Carl Jung called individuation—occurs naturally, but it helps if we are paying attention. It is easy to impede our own growth to a unified personality.

If we exalt our “ego identity”—that is become self-important about who we are or what we have achieved, then we have stalled the process of individuation. There is a big difference between a strong ego and an inflated one. If we inflate our self-importance, we will suffer for it, for it is literally true that “He who exalts himself will be humbled.”