There is this 2003 article in by Jonathn Rauch the Atlantic – Caring for Your Introvert. I never completely admitted to introversion but I might just finally give up after reading this. The fact that the article is a sort of a self confession by Jonathn Rauch is the strength and the weakness. The weakness is because Jonathn Rauch in my opinion generalizes the intellectual aspects of introversion too much. I am a very good speaker and I always though that it runs contrary to an introversion but Jonathn Rauch says it’s a part of it. I must look into that.
The Introversion as an Orientation
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Doesn’t the ideas of a personality type strike you as strange? Humans are all so unique yet we have no problem stacking them into large ill defined categories (as if there are not enough categories to divide people already.) Worse, most of these things read like horoscopes, there is always enough positive aspects to gratify the ego into accepting the demarcation. Even when traits are negative it is just in a liberating “its not your fault now because it is just your personality” sense.
This is still the most read ever article in the Atlantic magazine, even 7 years after it was published. There could be only on reason for that, it resonates strongly. You view, David, is such a cliche it bores me. You need to stop thinking in a box, you try to pass the most common, primitive misconceptions for interesting ideas.
I feel as if the “mob” has descended on me. :) How can someone who relies on an argumentum ad populum in the same paragraph decry “the most common, primitive misconceptions”? If you are going to be ironic at least smile. A great blog, I just wonder why you hate your audience so much.
Hate must be earned. Reading a blog is not enough to qualify. Besides I don’t hate that much anymore.