A trait that is associated with most successful people of the millennium. Entrepreneurs to scientists to writers, often to players and dancers too, people who can say it in front of a group, a crowd are those who can perform. Have you ever heard a successful man of today's generation say, "I have sat by a window that looked over the emptiness, contemplated the situation and decided to do this?" And to take your skills of communication and socialising with people around into account might not sound good, but it is far worse.
I've been there, done that. Brought up in a almost rural suburb, educated in schools where memory power meant marks, and in systems that cared for your problem-solving skills more than your ability to express, we never knew who extroverts were. Until we met these super-talented cool dudes from the urban convents, oh how fluent their English is, how cheeky their references to literature are, and how easily do they come up to initiate tasks and relationships while we sit in the corner of the same group praying no one points out to us and says, "how about you start?"
Yes, they were the cool dudes, the civilised ones, until we saw them at work, across the table, peeping into their sheets and screens to see how coolly they would have performed the same task we'd both been assigned. And thanks to good fair selections all the time, we were all in the same boat. Yet they're the leads and heads, just because they can socialise well with the higher officials, fake up smiles and relations, carry out tasks well (as they flaunt it) and not to mention, negotiate us introverts like a boss.
As if that were not enough, as if we only belonged on a farm and not on campus, the introverts are often ignored out of gangs. And we well know that introvert gang is an oxymoron. Thus, being a teacher who's introvert at heart, extrovert by profession, I now see what efforts it took me, and how different my personal and professional lives are. And it is very true that the measure of ones language and presentation is leading the measure of work abilities. You better know how you judge.
I've been there, done that. Brought up in a almost rural suburb, educated in schools where memory power meant marks, and in systems that cared for your problem-solving skills more than your ability to express, we never knew who extroverts were. Until we met these super-talented cool dudes from the urban convents, oh how fluent their English is, how cheeky their references to literature are, and how easily do they come up to initiate tasks and relationships while we sit in the corner of the same group praying no one points out to us and says, "how about you start?"
Yes, they were the cool dudes, the civilised ones, until we saw them at work, across the table, peeping into their sheets and screens to see how coolly they would have performed the same task we'd both been assigned. And thanks to good fair selections all the time, we were all in the same boat. Yet they're the leads and heads, just because they can socialise well with the higher officials, fake up smiles and relations, carry out tasks well (as they flaunt it) and not to mention, negotiate us introverts like a boss.
As if that were not enough, as if we only belonged on a farm and not on campus, the introverts are often ignored out of gangs. And we well know that introvert gang is an oxymoron. Thus, being a teacher who's introvert at heart, extrovert by profession, I now see what efforts it took me, and how different my personal and professional lives are. And it is very true that the measure of ones language and presentation is leading the measure of work abilities. You better know how you judge.