introverts

A Manifesto for Introverts1. There's a word for 'people who are in their heads too much': thinkers.2. Solitude is a catalyst for innovation.3. The next generation of quiet kids can and must be raised to know their own strengths.4. Sometimes it helps to be a pretend extrovert. There will always be time to be quiet later.5. But in the long run, staying true to your temperament is key to finding work you love and work that matters.6. One genuine new relationship is worth a fistful of business cards.7. It's OK to cross the street to avoid making small talk.8. 'Quiet leadership' is not an oxymoron.9. Love is essential; gregariousness is optional.10. 'In a gentle way, you can shake the world.' -Mahatma Gandhi

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doing it.", Nerdfighteria Wiki, January 17, 2012]

But the most important thing to know about being an introvert is that there__ nothing wrong with you. You__e not broken because you__e quiet. It__ okay to stay home on a Friday night instead of going to a party. Being an introvert is a perfectly normal 'thing' to be.

There are such a lot of things that have no place in summer and autumn and spring. Everything that__ a little shy and a little rum. Some kinds of night animals and people that don__ fit in with others and that nobody really believes in. They keep out of the way all the year. And then when everything__ quiet and white and the nights are long and most people are asleep__hen they appear.

If genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration, then as a culture we tend to lionize the one percent.

Anyone who writes books is at least mostly an introvert. It__ amazing to be able to share that internalized part of myself, that little world that no one really knows about. I just wrote down it down on a piece of paper just to be crazy, and people loving that is so strange.

Extroverts sparkle, introverts glow. Extroverts are fireworks, introverts are a fire in the hearth.

The acquisition of culture requires repose, sitting quietly in a room with a book, or alone with one's thoughts even any crowded concert or art museum.

Writing is something you do alone. Its a profession for introverts who want to tell you a story but don't want to make eye contact while doin

Introverts may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.

The rest were nondescript, as yet undifferentiated__et nondescripts, thought Harriet, were the most difficult of all human beings to analyze. You scarcely knew they were there, until__ang! Something quite unexpected blew up like a depth charge and left you marveling, to collect strange floating debris.

The last introvert in a world of extroverts. Silence: my response to both emptiness and saturation. But silence frightens people. I had to learn how to talk. Out of politeness.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Extroverts are more likely to take a quick-and-dirty approach to problem-solving, trading accuracy for speed, making increasing numbers of mistakes as they go, and abandoning ship altogether when the problem seems too difficult or frustrating. Introverts think before they act, digest information thoroughly, stay on task longer, give up less easily, and work more accurately. Introverts and extroverts also direct their attention differently: if you leave them to their own devices, the introverts tend to sit around wondering about things, imagining things, recalling events from their past, and making plans for the future. The extroverts are more likely to focus on what's happening around them. It's as if extroverts are seeing "what is" while their introverted peers are asking "what if.

When introverts are in conflict with each other...it may require a map in order to follow all the silences, nonverbal cues and passive-aggressive behaviors!