Thoughts on Gift, Dark Dot, Strengths

Have you ever heard of the “dark dot” story?

University students were given a test on their first day of the semester. Their professor was handing them a single piece of paper. These one-pagers were completely blank, except for one tiny black dot, in the top left corner.

No title, no question. Just a blank page with a black spot.

The professor then asked her students to write on a separate piece of paper what they were seeing. They would be graded based on how they describe the piece of paper.