Open-Minded.

Gabriele's strength:
Open-minded.

To be educated means to learn to open your mind. An educator is someone who helps you to everyday open your mind a little bit more then the day before. Your mind is open when you don't take anything for granted, when you let things surprise you. As a garden on the top of a building.
As educators, how can we cultivate a classroom of mutual open-mindedness, where we can enjoy and delight in discovery along with our students? Do you have an example of this from your experience? 

Steady.

Don's Primary strength: Steadiness.  

The Tortoise and the Hare....I believe people from every country will have a similar story in their culture. What tips to you have regarding  keeping yourself and your students focused, moving ahead without wasting energy and getting distracted?

Enthusiasm!

Topic: What is ONE word that is a personal strength that you have honed or built from experience.  What sort of life experiences helped you build this strength? Perhaps you learned this when you were young; perhaps a more recent experience has shaped you.  How is this strength a tool that helps you teach?
Here is a post from Anastasia:

My word is ENTHUSIASM.
 I think that I was born with it. They say: "Fortune favours the brave" - I'd add "and the enthusiastic as well".  It's so incredibly important to give your heart to what you're doing. For me teaching can't exist without being enthusiastic, inspired and involved - I wish I could use all the three words!, otherwise it's just sheer presence and time-wasting. I'm working with individuals now; each time I am to put myself into somebody else's shoes, sometimes equal to a 8-year  old boy, the other time  to a 40-year old woman. This experience enriches you greatly but from time to time it's tough if it were not for enthusiasm.

My picture is from the USSR collection of pictures that reminds people of some funny and touching moments of the past.

As a teacher, what are you enthusiastic about? Are there ways to generate enthusiasm, build it? Please comment below.