Susan Cain: evaluation

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…That is so funny. I love that, I appreciate that. Okay, so let me set a little foundation for folks. We kind of dove into stuff, but I think this will be helpful. We're talking about introvertedness. What is, what are the clearest sign you an introvert? Two questions you could ask yourself if you're not really sure how you identify. So one of them is, how do you feel... Imagine that you are going to a party, or networking event that you are truly enjoying with company you truly enjoy. If you're an extrovert, you probably find this incredibly energizing. And so after two hours or so, you're looking for more because you're now hyper energized. And if you're an introvert, no matter how much you love all those people you were just talking to, your battery is probably way drained. And so after two hours you're looking for the escape route. So that's kind of one question to ask. And then another one would be, if you imagine a weekend, let's say, where you are totally free of social and professional obligations, how would you choose to spend your time? And how many people would be in the picture, and how well would you know those people? Would you be allocating your social time to just one or two close friends or family members, or would you be excited about a party full of people you don't know that well? Those kinds of questions tell you a lot about what your true preferences are. And I stress that phrase true preferences because for introverts in an extroverted culture, we spend so much time kind of unconsciously adapting to what we think our preferences are supposed to be, that I hear from many people that they kind of have lost touch with how they actually prefer to spend their time. First of all, I love the two-hour heuristic as a, think I could just pay attention to after two hours. Because as you were describing initially, no, that'd be really cool, just like meet with a bunch of interesting people for... If I'm an extrovert, if I enjoy that, I'll maybe am extrovert. But then it's like, okay, at two hours. Okay. And so clearly to me be like, yes, I'll be exhausted and want to go do something else.…

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