For the love of Introverts
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Rosa Parks was a powerful introvert who changed history with the help of Martin Luther King Jr.
When she died, the obituaries recalled her as "timid and shy" but has "the courage of a lion". They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude". She called her authobiography "Quiet Strength"
When she died, the obituaries recalled her as "timid and shy" but has "the courage of a lion". They were full of phrases like "radical humility" and "quiet fortitude". She called her authobiography "Quiet Strength"
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Also useful at job interviews. 
When I have had to be talkative -- job interviews, talking to doctors and nurses -- I tend to crank up the music in the car, sing like nobody's listening, (and loud so ten cars up the road on a busy freeway can listen), and bebop to the rhythm just to get myself up hyper enough to talk.
[video=youtube;CZkjeJKBI0M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkjeJKBI0M[/video]
When I have had to be talkative -- job interviews, talking to doctors and nurses -- I tend to crank up the music in the car, sing like nobody's listening, (and loud so ten cars up the road on a busy freeway can listen), and bebop to the rhythm just to get myself up hyper enough to talk.
[video=youtube;CZkjeJKBI0M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZkjeJKBI0M[/video]
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I refuse the label "shy." I ain't shy. I merely do not talk because...
-- you're doing fine without me.
-- you aren't listening anyway.
-- you've made it clear you don't want my opinion.
-- it's not polite to interrupt, so I can't get a word in edgewise.
Introvert doesn't mean "shy." It means we re-energize from solitude. (We're doing it now!) Extroverts re-energize from people. We're just not that.
(Also why you'll find many introverts online, but not many extroverts. We're not anti-social. We simply get no benefits from social situations, and it depletes us the longer we're in them, because we have to try so hard. The opposite is true for extroverts. They get depleted without others around, and they have to try to be alone.)
-- you're doing fine without me.
-- you aren't listening anyway.
-- you've made it clear you don't want my opinion.
-- it's not polite to interrupt, so I can't get a word in edgewise.
Introvert doesn't mean "shy." It means we re-energize from solitude. (We're doing it now!) Extroverts re-energize from people. We're just not that.
(Also why you'll find many introverts online, but not many extroverts. We're not anti-social. We simply get no benefits from social situations, and it depletes us the longer we're in them, because we have to try so hard. The opposite is true for extroverts. They get depleted without others around, and they have to try to be alone.)