This article is aimed at illuminating the introvert to the need and benefits of embracing their introvertion nature and channeling what people felt is their weaknesses into strength.
It's also channel towards enlightening individual of other personality traits to understand the introvert, and how to get the best out of your introvert friend, colleagues or relative.
So without wasting our time, let's dive into the ocean of introvertion🏊♂️😉
WHO IS AN INTROVERT? Introvert is someone who prefer a quite environment and derive more pleasure in being alone than being among crowd.
POPULAR MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT INTROVERT
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INTROVERTS ARE UNFRIENDLY/UNEMOTIONAL Unemotional/unfriendly is sense that introvert tend to react indifferently to all situation, this is a misconception because, the faces of an introvert are constantly pale and they are not good at giving response in a hurry, so if needs arrises for a quick response, they tend to say things that make them feel less concern, so you can't really discern what's going on in their mind. As an introvert below are some of my encounter with people; “am ain't angry, my face as always been like that.” You're use to such phrase, right? Well personally I'm, countless times... I was once in a board meeting with my usual longface and dull look and then the team leader Greet me to be sure I'm following his speech, and the I reply with a smile. I constantly imagine what is playing in the mind such individual whenever I reacted like that. “oh!, you do smile?" Was his response. (Unknown to people of other traits that the face of an introvert as a mind of it own)
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INTROVERTS ARE BORING People assume this because most times, introvert aren't the ones who start a conversation, and when you do on our behalf we hardly vibe with you, you might get a compendious replies. I've been tagged by different people as being boring to be with, but some of them were left domb founded when they met me flowing with others when the discussion revolves around my areas of interest. We definitely do vibe. unique and calm vibes. Though 'it doesn't match our extrovert friends level of vibe'. The nitty gritty of this is that if you engage introvert in activities or conversations that revolves around their areas of interest, at the end, you can come to conclusion that they're boring or not.
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INTROVERTS ARE PROUD
No matter how much we interact with people like other humans do, we prefer silent environment. “Our nature of being reserved constantly gets us in trouble.”
If you are someone like me, you'll basically reside in your head.
This reserved nature of ours, unwillingness to participate in certain activities and love for solitary , Make most people conclud that we're proud.
We don't ignore nor underestimate people. (Well, aside those who do it intentionally,🌚 our nature gives people the impression that we're proud and thereby belittle others, this not true). See ehn, the act of residing in our heads constantly make us forget that we're in a world where people interact. I hope people will understand that our love for solitary is how we love to live life. Honourary mention; 4. INTROVERTS ARE SHY 5. INTROVERTS DISLIKES SOCIALIZING
EXCHANGING YOUR WEAKNESS FOR STRENGTH I once experience a situation where I was in the midst of extrovert. i hated the way I was being confronted or critized. i dont like talking too much, and they always want me to elabote myself, i like to be precise or straightforward when taking but they kept saying all sort of thing ; a close mouth is a closed destiny🥱, i should come out of my shell🐚, i should explode💣, i should do this, i should do that, i dont get. At a point i couldnt take all those words again.😙🙃🙃
Well, As it's commonly said, when the value of a thing is unknown, misuse is inevitable.
-So first thing first you need to embrace your nature of being an introvert, you'll keep living in the shadow of others until you accept yourself.
- Quietness: your ability to be quite gives you an edge in thoughtfulness and good listening skills which open you up to paying attention to details. Quietness is a virtue of the past, the present, and the future cos it'll help build powerful listening skills, refining and defining my thought patterns👌
- Being tag unfriendly/unemotional due to you not socializing can be channel into Being somewhere but not everywhere. Somewhere meditating, strategizing, and restructuring -Taking out time to refine my character, personality, and temperament defines your strengths and weakness.✊* You don't have to react to everything.
- Leveraging on the uses of the internet (social media) one of the thing I discover about myself as an introvert is that I tend to speak/communicate freely while chatting online unlike physical communication. In fact some friends who're use to my introverted response physical use to call half way through the chat to be sure they're really chatting with me and not someone else.
So as i bring the article to a close , thanks for your time, I hope you've learn one or two stuffs?
Feel free to share which of the above you can relate to.
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