In the course of reading “Bringing out Your Childs Gifts”, by Paula M White, a reader might be able to identify elements of their own personality in the classifications she reviews. In my case, I have found myself to be primarily a verbal linguistic learning, a trait expressed since my early childhood formed through long practice with reading, encouraged by my family and ultimately expressed in my writings.

During the early developmental stages of my life, I was kept by my alcoholic father in a playpen, left only to run about with no books or stimulation of any kind. When this condition was removed from me and my mother taught me how to read, I dove into it with great gusto. From age four Dr. Seuss’ classics One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish, Go Dog Go, and The Cat in the Hat, to the texts of Robinson Crusoe, A Time to Kill, A Christmas Carol, and numerous others at the age of 18, my passion for reading has been long lived.

Reading is an important part of every academic career and as such is extremely important to me, both on an educational and recreational level. By indulging thoroughly the verbal-linguistic aspects of my personality, I have been able to expand my vocabulary, delve deeply into computers, and learned to express myself at a level sufficient to write business proposals for HomeLAN and Diversions Entertainment. These proposals require a reasonable, industry centric vocabulary in addition to proper spelling, organization, grammar, and a general business tone, with the possibility of detrimental affects to my professional standing in the organization if my audience detects gratuitous errors and overlooked mistakes. My exploration of the linguistic arts helps me now both academically and vocationally as I work to earn my bachelors of Science in Computer Information Systems. Whether it be understanding logic loops in computer programming or determining valuable content from my science texts, this skill of reading and writing mastery will give me the advantage that could determine the difference between passing and failing a future class. Often how well you do in any particular class is based on how much of the text and the notes that you can understand, memorize and later articulate in some fashion. Without the strong base of the notes, the reading, the ability to hold that reading within, a student is often left to resort to “cramming”, a practice which is both stressful for the student and dangerous if they are not organized.

In Reading an English paper for comprehension, a science text, a computer book, or even some arithmetic texts or composing business and action proposals, the ability to focus my verbal-linguistic comprehension will be a decisive advantage for years to come. I have had the opportunity to develop these skills since early childhood, reading, writing, and ultimately applying them to a long study in computers and other sections of my academic life. We all have some well formed focus; by leveraging it into our life we may all benefit from our own unique a