In typically good timing, Dan Wilt posted a link through to this article: “Caring for Your Introvert“. From the article:
If we introverts ran the world, it would no doubt be a calmer, saner, more peaceful sort of place. As Coolidge is supposed to have said, “Don’t you know that four fifths of all our troubles in this life would disappear if we would just sit down and keep still?”
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We can only dream that someday, when our condition is more widely understood, when perhaps an Introverts’ Rights movement has blossomed and borne fruit, it will not be impolite to say “I’m an introvert. You are a wonderful person and I like you. But now please shush.”
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This is great! Passing it on to a good friend who is struggling with exactly this. Thanks!!
Glad that this proved helpful for you Rindy.
lol wow
If introverts ran the world, we extroverts would go mad and start a revolution just for something to do to make up for the complete lack of mental stimulation.
Maybe introvers should all just plug into the matrix and eat imaginary steak while the rest of us go about the business of living! ;o)
There’s evidence to suggest that the Myers Briggs and Big Five measurements of Introversion are not prescriptive personality Traits, but are in fact an external expression of the function of a persons intrinsic motivation. Some people’s motivation functions in a way that means they always want to avoid social situations, but in others it is entirely context dependant. This is why some apparent introverts appear to go bipolar in midlife and suddenly turn into party animals.
Sometimes it is all about intrinsic motivation, and sometimes its about social/environmental paradigm…. so a person in the second category who suddenly experiences a paradigm shift, is subsequently empowered to live out their true inspiration and engage with people.
Strangely, some extroverts might actually be introverts who are so far out of their comfort zone they are pathologically driven to socialise as a survival mechanism.
As they like to say in scholarly circles… when people assume, they make a small grey beast of burden out of self and other.