Rosa Parks, An Introvert Who Changed The World
Why the world needs introverts
Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS
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Tuesday 13 March 2012
Shy, unconfident, solitary: there are many popular conceptions of introversion – most of them negative – but the reality is far more complicated
Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality – the "north and south of temperament", as the scientist JD Higley puts it – is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum. Our place on this continuum influences our choice of friends and mates, and how we make conversation, resolve differences, and show love. It affects the careers we choose and whether or not we succeed at them. It governs how likely we are to exercise (a habit found in extroverts), commit adultery (extroverts), function well without sleep (introverts), learn from our mistakes (introverts), place big bets in the stock market (extroverts), delay gratification (introverts), be a good leader (depends on the type of leadership called for), and ask "what if" (introverts). …show more content…
Today introversion and extroversion are two of the most exhaustively researched subjects in personality psychology, arousing the curiosity of hundreds of
Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS Rosa Parks: an introvert who changed the world. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS
Read by 53,277 people
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Tuesday 13 March 2012
Shy, unconfident, solitary: there are many popular conceptions of introversion – most of them negative – but the reality is far more complicated
Our lives are shaped as profoundly by personality as by gender or race. And the single most important aspect of personality – the "north and south of temperament", as the scientist JD Higley puts it – is where we fall on the introvert-extrovert spectrum. Our place on this continuum influences our choice of friends and mates, and how we make conversation, resolve differences, and show love. It affects the careers we choose and whether or not we succeed at them. It governs how likely we are to exercise (a habit found in extroverts), commit adultery (extroverts), function well without sleep (introverts), learn from our mistakes (introverts), place big bets in the stock market (extroverts), delay gratification (introverts), be a good leader (depends on the type of leadership called for), and ask "what if" (introverts). …show more content…
Today introversion and extroversion are two of the most exhaustively researched subjects in personality psychology, arousing the curiosity of hundreds of