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Quote: Booo @ July 21 2012, 9:27 AM BST

There's nothing wrong with being an introvert.

In 2003, when the American author Jonathan Rauch published in the Atlantic magazine an essay entitled Caring For Your Introvert, the response was "astonishing". Years later, it was still the magazine's most popular piece online. "I have shrunken and laminated 100 copies and carry a few in my shirt pocket," wrote one reader. "Now, when someone perplexed by 15 seconds of silence asks, 'What are you thinking about?' I simply hand him or her a copy and retire to the basement." I predict a similar fate for Susan Cain's forthcoming book Quiet: The Power Of Introverts In A World That Can't Stop Talking, which rails against the "New Groupthink" of a culture fixated on teamwork, open-plan offices and the wisdom of crowds. Introverts will flock to bookshops to buy it, I suspect. Except not in flocks. Maybe they'll just download it to their e-readers in private.

Rauch's essential point was that introversion doesn't mean being shy or misanthropic; what defines an introvert is finding social interaction tiring and solitude revitalising, while for extroverts it's the reverse. Cain insists, meanwhile, that solitude is crucial to creativity. For every charismatic Steve Jobs, there's a retiring Steve Wozniak; idea-sharing works best when we also protect the interior quiet in which, for many, inspiration first arrives. http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/feb/03/this-column-change-your-life-introverts

Yes, it's annoying that the world is constructed around the accepted 'fact' that being extrovert is somehow more healthy and correct. Kids being chastised in school for being quiet and shy, and not speaking up more, and forcing them to do presentations, etc. And that carries on into the workforce.
Introverts are generally made to feel their personality is somehow wrong and inferior, and they should learn to be extrovert.
Not good.

I think as an introvert we should be encouraged as kids to find the balance between both. And realise that you can be both, as and when required.

Well, to an extent.

For me what it really means is I don't like people.
Haven't killed anyone yet though (physically).

Quote: zooo @ July 21 2012, 12:50 PM BST

Well, to an extent.

Sure.

But I've had extroverted people say that they hate the way they feel the pressure to be the life and soul of a party. But as an introvert I sometimes envy their ease with these social situations.

But I also think that being extrovert is easier, as you can turn that off (in polite society). Whereas an introvert has to force it on.

No one can ever really know which is easier, as it's impossible to genuinely be both!

True, dat!

Quote: Lee @ July 21 2012, 12:48 PM BST

And realise that you can be both, as and when required.

Think I'm one of those people. I can be very quiet around new people, especailly in a group to the extent that I'm sure people think I'm rude or not enjoying the conversation. Yet around peole that I know well I can be very loud and most of them proberly wish I'd just shut up most of the time.

Quote: Lee @ July 19 2012, 11:49 PM BST

ISTJ

Me too.

Quote: Booo @ July 21 2012, 9:27 AM BST

There's nothing wrong with being an introvert.

Unless you like walking into cinemas in Denver brandishing weapons. Yep, it's that old classic 'classmates described the gunman as a quiet loner and an introvert'.

Therefore, all introverted people should be closely monitored by the authorities and preferably drugged.

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 21 2012, 4:23 PM BST

Unless you like walking into cinemas in Denver brandishing weapons. Yep, it's that old classic 'classmates described the gunman as a quiet loner and an introvert'.

Therefore, all introverted people should be closely monitored by the authorities and preferably drugged.

I'm already drugged.

Quote: Booo @ July 21 2012, 4:31 PM BST

I'm already drugged.

Laughing out loud

The weekend starts here!

Quote: Renegade Carpark @ July 21 2012, 4:35 PM BST

Laughing out loud

The weekend starts here!

Oh yes. ;)

;) Not started here yet- weather gone cloudy, not looking good for the birthday party lantern as there is no breeze!

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