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November 29, 2005
Introverts are smarter!!
Like I needed to be told this. Of course like most introverts I've learned over the years how to fake my way in a world that is built for Extroverts. We've become a nation that relishes and embraces impulsive people without any consideration for the future or themselves. This partially defines the Republican party. It's so frustrating for an Introvert to just guess about the possible outcomes of a decision and yet that's the norm of the people out there. Personally I like to run all the likely scenarios of a decision before I make it, because the reality of the situation is that the scenarios are going to be run and then I'll spend hours beating myself up for not reviewing it first if I don't look at them. The need for downtime is next to impossible to explain to an Extrovert. The suggestion of it is considered anti-Social. I love people that are uncomplicated, which leaves me with the most in common with children. Extroverts on the other hand have a never ending series of agendas and impulses that you are bombarded with when you're around them. And for Introvert being around people like that is like running the mental equivalent of a marathon. It's exhausting! You have to push your brain faster and faster trying to go through your standard thought process faster to deal with them. I always get killed in interviews that way. I like to make carefully thought out answers and they expect impulsive rhetoric. If I say something I want to be able to back it up. Which is what makes blogging such a treat for an introvert. The medium allows time to think about what's being said. To ask the important questions, like what is the agenda that is being played out here? How rhetorical is this question? How much of this person's personal life has prompted this kind of reaction? Blogging allows time to dissect and research everything to the levels that make me feel comfortable about what I'm saying. It also it gives me time for my greatest joy...problem solving and planning. I live to solve problems and the more complicated they are the better. It would be nice seeing a world that supported both process equally and fairly, but I doubt we will see that kind of thing any time soon...esepcially not in our world of 24/7 punditry and hate speech. Unfortunately we have to live in the shadows and develop coping mechanisms that allow us to function in an Extroverted world. I score in the middle on the Extrovert/Introvert scale because I've learned enough ways to hide it from the world, but I'm a hard core Introvert.
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Posted by ManDrake at November 29, 2005 12:28 PM
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You should have mentioned how people treat introverts like they have something wrong with them because they don't want to be out and about 24 hours a day/7 days a week. That annoys me to no end!
Posted by: Dianne at November 29, 2005 12:34 PM
I thought of that, but then I thought you might misinterpreted it as a backhanded jab at you for wanting to do family activities that don't interest me. And by the time I went into explaining that wasn't the implication it would have been a different blog post. So I just left it out to be safe. But thanks for adding it back in on your own. ;)
Posted by: ManDrake at November 29, 2005 12:40 PM
I'll admit I'm more extroverted than you (about certain things anyway), but I'd much rather just stay home and be in the peace and quiet.
Posted by: Dianne at November 29, 2005 12:44 PM