Positive personality trait
Free-spirited
Independent, adventurous, and guided by personal curiosity.
3 ready sentences Updated Run by Adrian Nutiu
What it looks like
- Makes choices about work, travel or style by what interests them, not by what is expected.
- Ignores unwritten rules about how someone their age or in their job should live, dress or spend their time.
- Enjoys their freedom openly, and lets other people live their own way too.
Fits when someone prefers self-directed choices over rigid convention
Not when the person breaks commitments or treats every limit as oppression
How to say it
Replace the brackets with what the person actually did.
There is no resume line for this one: to an employer it can suggest someone who will not stay or will not follow a process. Show self-directed work with a result, such as a project you started, and let a reference describe the spirit.
Fills [Name] in the reference and the report card comment, ready to copy.
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Reference or recommendation [Name] is free-spirited in a way that serves the work: they [started or tried] [unusual project or approach] that nobody had asked for, and they saw it through to [result].
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Report card comment [Name] is a free-spirited learner who follows their own interests with real joy, and is learning when the class needs them to follow the plan.
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In a story, shown not told At forty she sold the car, kept the bicycle, and took a job teaching sailing on a lake she had once seen in a photograph. Her birthday cards to her nieces never once arrived late.
Her free-spirited style mixed formal music with improvised dance.
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