What Is Wrong As Being An Introvert
Anh Duc Nguyen (Andy)
“I didn’t say I want to be alone, I said I want to be left alone” Have you ever been called shy because you afraid to talk with new people you just met? Or boring because you are so quiet and reticent? Or even asocial personality because you don’t like to hang out with friends or go to a party? Actually, you are not shy, quiet or asocial personality, you can easily have a conversation with others and hang out with friends normally, but you just decide to do the opposite things and you feel more comfortable with your decision. If so, you might be an introvert. The brief explanation about the introverted person is that introverts are people who recharge their energy by being alone by themselves with their thoughts and ideas, in other word, they are living in their heads. On the other hands, extroverts receive their energy by social interaction, they are hanging out with lots of people and making new friends. Because introverts are in minorities, in fact, it is less than one-third of a population, they forced to live in an extroverted world. Every time you are part of a group that is in a minority, people will discriminate against you. Just as the discrimination between culture, ethnic and gender.
When people hear that introverts enjoy being alone, they often misunderstand and assume that introverts are shy or have social anxiety and somehow asocial. For some people, with an introverted personality, you rarely become a good leader or good in business. Actually, introverts don’t dislike social interaction or meeting new people, they just prefer a small group of friends who are close and have deep relationship. Research shows that at very young age, introverts react thing in a very different way than extroverts do. According to a 1989 Harvard study, a researcher named Jerome Kagan, an American psychologist working as a professor at Harvard University in the Developmental program, gathered five hundreds of four month-old infants and subjected them
“I didn’t say I want to be alone, I said I want to be left alone” Have you ever been called shy because you afraid to talk with new people you just met? Or boring because you are so quiet and reticent? Or even asocial personality because you don’t like to hang out with friends or go to a party? Actually, you are not shy, quiet or asocial personality, you can easily have a conversation with others and hang out with friends normally, but you just decide to do the opposite things and you feel more comfortable with your decision. If so, you might be an introvert. The brief explanation about the introverted person is that introverts are people who recharge their energy by being alone by themselves with their thoughts and ideas, in other word, they are living in their heads. On the other hands, extroverts receive their energy by social interaction, they are hanging out with lots of people and making new friends. Because introverts are in minorities, in fact, it is less than one-third of a population, they forced to live in an extroverted world. Every time you are part of a group that is in a minority, people will discriminate against you. Just as the discrimination between culture, ethnic and gender.
When people hear that introverts enjoy being alone, they often misunderstand and assume that introverts are shy or have social anxiety and somehow asocial. For some people, with an introverted personality, you rarely become a good leader or good in business. Actually, introverts don’t dislike social interaction or meeting new people, they just prefer a small group of friends who are close and have deep relationship. Research shows that at very young age, introverts react thing in a very different way than extroverts do. According to a 1989 Harvard study, a researcher named Jerome Kagan, an American psychologist working as a professor at Harvard University in the Developmental program, gathered five hundreds of four month-old infants and subjected them