Input describes the instinctive ability to know how to acquire and retain information in memory. You have a natural curiosity that ensures you keep collecting new bits of information, continuously growing what you know.

You bring an unrelenting need to grow what people know. For you, knowledge is essentially the capturing and retaining of information - and information is power. What you know enables what you can do. So you endlessly capture information (data) and then look to make what you've captured accessible in a way that is relevant and useful to others.

You are unashamedly and endlessly curious so you collate bits of knowledge. In doing so, you create a place where others can come for what they need to know. You also create in others a desire to know more and so you help educate the world.

Reading...anything and everything;

to have my knowledge trusted - to be an expert on something;

teaching or sharing with others what I know (verbal or written);

asking lots of questions.

Value detailed information and know what they are talking about;

ask me for my information, and appreciate it;

like to use words correctly;

are a trusted source of information;

share information willingly.

Believing I know enough;

missing a spelling mistake;

being ignorant or uninformed about a subject that I am interested in.

When I have to start working in an area I am ignorant in;

do not have enough information to make a decision or make a comment about it;

I am not respected for what I know;

I am stagnant in the growth of what I know;

people cannot write or spell properly.

A 'know-it-all';

being too inquisitive or 'nosey'.

I need to have as much information as possible before I start anything.

When I feel I lack knowledge my confidence may be low, and I make slower decisions.

Understand that I work best off 'templates'. A template can be knowledge of a system or process. These take time to create and have available for use. The more templates I have available that I can adapt to do what needs to be done, the faster I work.

Use me as a resource of knowledge.

Ask me to help you manage or find ways of storing the collective knowledge in an organisation, for use by all.

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You always want to know more. You crave information.

You like to collect certain things, such as ideas, books, memorabilia, quotations, and facts.

You have an active curiosity. You find many things very interesting. A few minutes of 'surfing the Net' may turn into hours once your curiosity takes off, and you might have difficulties filing and housing all of the new information you acquire.

Look for jobs in which you are charged with acquiring new information each day, such as teaching, research, or journalism.

Devise a system to store and easily locate information.This can be as simple as a file for all the articles you have clipped or as sophisticated as a computer database.

Your mind is open and absorbent. You naturally soak up information in the same way that a sponge soaks up water. But just as the primary purpose of the sponge is not to permanently contain what it absorbs,neither should your mind simply store information. Input without output can lead to stagnation. As you gather and absorb information, be aware of the individuals and groups that can most benefit from your knowledge, and be intentional about sharing with them.

You might naturally be an exceptional repository of facts, data, and ideas. If that's the case, don't be afraid to position yourself as an expert. By simply following your Input talents, you could become known as the authority in your field.

Remember that you must be more than just a collector of information.At some point, you'll need to leverage this knowledge and turn it into action.Make a point of identifying the facts and data that would be most valuable to others, and use this information to their advantage.

Schedule time to read books and articles that stimulateyou.

Deliberately increase your vocabulary. Collect new words,and learn the meaning of each of them.

Identify situations in which you can share the information you have collected with other people. Also make sure to let your friends and colleagues know that you enjoy answering their questions.

Knowledge is power for you and so you can literally feel naked when you feel you don't know what you think you should know. Consequently you can feel fearful and paralysed by a lack of information. This can prevent you from embracing situations where it is not about knowledge.

Watch out for: Wanting to know stuff that distracts you from using your other areas of talent.

When is the need to know not relevant or important?