Extroverts can try a few different approaches to get the introverts in their life to respond ( or at least to not walk away:)
1) Pause now and then – allow your words to “land”…wait before answering the question you just asked!
2) Listen more than talk - someone told me that we were given two ears and one mouth for a reason!
3) Avoid the “What’s wrong?” question….It only irritates the introvert because usually nothing is the matter.
4) “Praise in public, reprimand in private” usually makes sense. However, a lot of introverts don’t want the spotlight on them so consider giving them kudos one on one and letting others know about their achievments through email.
Check out these two pieces published recently.
http://www.ajc.com/hotjobs/content/hotjobs/careercenter/articles/2009/06/21/introverts
Any other suggestions for us babbling brooks?
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“They (Introverts) just didn’t place a larger weight on social stimuli than they did on any other stimuli, of which flowers are one example,” said.
“[This] supports the claim that introverts, or their brains, might be indifferent to people — they can take them or leave them, so to speak. The introvert’s brain treats interactions with people the same way it treats encounters with other, non-human information, such as inanimate objects for example,” Inna Fishman said.
They concluded that, “The results strongly suggest that human faces, or people in general, hold more significance for extroverts, or are more meaningful for them.” Continue reading the rest of this article...
What’s mystifying to Stewart—and likely to anyone with either a shred of empathy or a tendency to clam up in public—is the looking- glass reality in which her manner, rather than eliciting sympathy or mere shrugs, has made her a figure of derision. “I think it’s funny that when I go onstage to accept an award, they think I’m nervous, uncomfortable, and awkward—and I am—but those are bad words for them,” Stewart says. Continue reading the rest of this article...
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