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Joined: 13 Jan 2008

PostPosted: Thu Dec 18, 2008 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'm an introvert I am doing fine here. I teach, I go home, I go to gym, I participate in Tournaments.
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PostPosted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 12:22 am    Post subject: Re: Being introverted sucks Reply with quote

tfunk wrote:

So, extroverts should know, you've been dealt the better hand.

Not really. Introverts outperform extroverts in many areas:

In the science journalist Winifred Gallagher�s words: �The glory of the disposition that stops to consider stimuli rather than rushing to engage with them is its long association with intellectual and artistic achievement. Neither E=mc2 nor �Paradise Lost� was dashed off by a party animal."

According to Daniel Nettle, a Newcastle University evolutionary psychologist, extroverts are more likely than introverts to be hospitalized as a result of an injury, have affairs (men) and change relationships (women). One study of bus drivers even found that accidents are more likely to occur when extroverts are at the wheel....

Introverts, who tend to digest information thoroughly, stay on task, and work accurately, earn disproportionate numbers of National Merit Scholarship finalist positions and Phi Beta Kappa keys, according to the Center for Applications of Psychological Type, a research arm for the Myers-Briggs personality type indicator � even though their I.Q. scores are no higher than those of extroverts. Another study, by the psychologists Eric Rolfhus and Philip Ackerman, tested 141 college students� knowledge of 20 different subjects, from art to astronomy to statistics, and found that the introverts knew more than the extroverts about 19 subjects � presumably, the researchers concluded, because the more time people spend socializing, the less time they have for learning.

THE psychologist Gregory Feist found that many of the most creative people in a range of fields are introverts who are comfortable working in solitary conditions in which they can focus attention inward. Steve Wozniak, the engineer who founded Apple with Steve Jobs, is a prime example: Mr. Wozniak describes his creative process as an exercise in solitude...

Another advantage sitters bring to leadership is a willingness to listen to and implement other people�s ideas. A groundbreaking study led by the Wharton management professor Adam Grant, to be published this month in The Academy of Management Journal, found that introverts outperform extroverts when leading teams of proactive workers � the kinds of employees who take initiative and are disposed to dream up better ways of doing things.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/opinion/sunday/26shyness.html?pagewanted=all
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declan74



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 4:54 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been an introvert my whole life and wouldn't change a thing.I only have my family,my gal,a couple of close friends and not many acquaintances at all.I like it that way.

My time is my own to do what I want.I don't always feel obligated to go out with friends and to parties and meetings etc etc. I get to do what I want to do and when I want to do it.

Being an introvert also helps to minimize the drama in life as you don't have to listen to very much BS from other people's lives and problems.

I prefer being alone as much as possible but am not shy in any way.It's just the way it is.
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joelove



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PostPosted: Mon Oct 24, 2011 6:27 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree with the above post. Introversion is what it is. I don't need company that often either. My job forces me to talk a lot, but man, after a few hours of that I don't really want to talk any more until the next day, unless it's with someone I like. I like most people. I've often been called shy and quiet, as if there is something wrong about these things. I just suppose the brain is often in overdrive in my case. There's so much going on and it's hard to stem the tide. I believe introverts are just often overstimulated by a social environment. In fact I know this. We tend to be perceptive folks.
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