This trait is one of the rarest Clifton strengths. It is a highly volatile trait to develop and to place on the balcony. The owner of this trait should seriously think about working in IT risk management. That could be technology risk management or perhaps financial risk management. The gift here is a gift of seeing potential risk that other people cannot see by themselves. A risk team might have thoroughly reviewed a suggested project and might not have noticed any potential risk. The Deliberative gifted person might step in and immediately identify risk that nobody else saw.
The difficulty in controlling this trait lies in its frequent desire to either stop or to slow down. For example, at number three, I possess Activator. My wife is gifted with Deliberative at number seven. I like to make immediate decisions to go places or do things or buy things. My wife, on the other hand, would prefer to slow down and think about what the weather might be like in the places I want to go, in order to know how to dress, or she may want to do some research on the things I want to buy in order to know that we are buying the right thing and/or getting a good deal. This was a challenge for us for many years until we both began to understand one another’s strengths.
