My Secret Sauce

1) I think I'm different in 5 key ways: 

1.  I think I am curious to learn. This makes me passionate and hard-working. 
2. I am social and interested in people; I'm compassionate. I care about people and am curious and pay attention to what makes people do what they do, why and what makes people different. 
3. I am creative. I thrive off of originality and uniqueness. I try my hardest to think of the same old things and thoughts in a new light.
4. I am a thinker. I like to analyze and question things. I often find myself "zoning out" to go over something that happened a week ago.
5. I problem solve. To be honest, I might not love problem-soling, but I am pretty good at it as a first child of three, I often noticed issues first and had to fix them (this came in time with much practice from babysitting).

2)

Shaina said that I'm caring and that my friend groups vary which is what makes me different (rather than how most people are friends with only one "group" of people).

Tori believes that what makes me different is my curiosity to understand people; she says that I like to learn every aspect of people and their personality and why they do things.

Sam thinks that what makes me different is my adaptability and how I can be very social but also very introverted and logical. She believes that this type of personality allows me to just go with the flow.

My mom said that I'm different because I'm mature and self-driven and embrace growth.

My dad thinks that what makes me different is my sense of people. My understanding of people's motivations and my ability to connect to people make me unique in the way I can act to them.

3) Reflecting back on these interviews, I'm very surprised that no one really discussed my creativity. I always thought that my artistic ability is what defined me and made me different, but it seems that my closest friends characterize me as unique primarily based off of my social skills and how I like to understand people. My mom's interview I think was the most different from mine. She touched on how I was mature, which I didn't really mention, and embrace growth, which no one else mentioned either. Besides that, I think that what all five of the people I interviewed said were along the same lines of what I said. I think the difference in how I viewed my creativity as being such a major key to what makes me unique and how the people that were closest to me viewed my social skills as what makes me unique is primarily due to the fact that that's how most people describe people today. I think that it's usual for a person to be summarized on how they act socially alone, and others don't really take into account the other characteristics people have to offer. I believe that this is because we live in a society that values social skills as the most important skill.