Dylan Anderson Essays (622 words) - Psychology, Personality

Dylan Anderson English 101 Final 12/17/14 Word Count: 607 Susan Cain: The power of introverts Susan Cain stood up in front of a bunch of people to give a wonderful speech about introverts and extroverts and the difference between them and how our society should work with introverts and extroverts. She told us a story about her experience and how it changed and how she did things while not think about it. Susan told us about how she was an introvert that loved to read and stay quit while with her family and not go out and do much. Then she went to summer camp, that's were she found out that she was different from other people and that if was difficult for her to be around people chanting "rowdie" as she stated in her speech. She went along with it and questioned, why they spelt it wrong but also why couldn't they just sit and read. Introverts are people that like to we quite and alone and be able to connect and learn on their own and have little to no interest with extroverted people. Extroverts are people that are outgoing and tend to crave attention or just go off and be energetic, you could say. An interesting fact that she stated in her speech was that "A third to a half of the population are introverts --a third to a half.So that's one out of every two or three people you know.So even if you're an extrovert yourself,I'm talking about your coworkersand your spouses and your children and the person sitting next to you right now --all of them subject to this biasthat is pretty deep and real in our society.We all internalize it from a very early agewithout even having a language for what we're doing." (Cain) She then went on and talked about three main things that we can do to help our society have a ying and yang type of balance. Number one was to stop the madness for constant group work. She deeply believe d that our offices should be encouraging casual, cafe-style types of interactions . It's great for introverts and it's great for extroverts . School same thing , w e need to be teaching kids to work together, but we also need to be teaching them how to work on their own. This is especially important for extroverted children too. They need to work on their own because that i s where deep thought comes from. Number two was g o to the wilderness. Be like Buddha, saying that we could all stand to unplug and get inside our own heads m ore often. Also n umber three; t ake a good look at what's inside your own suitcase and why you put it there. Whatever it is, I hope you will open up your sui tcases for other people to see, because the world needs you and it needs the things you carry. This TED talk would be great for everyone to watch, it is something that I feel is very true and that it needs to be addressed to jobs, schools and our society. The fact that some people choose to be alone and quite isn't a bad thing majority, almost all of our greatest inventions come from introverts but extroverts has created many things too. I personal think I would categorize myself as an extrovert just because I'm a outgoing kind of person but like Susan stated everyone has there own purpose and why of doing things. Work Cited Cain, Susan. "Susan Cain: The Power of Introverts." TED: Ideas Worth Spreading. TED, Mar. 2012. Web.17 Dec. 2014