PUBLIC SPEAKING

Fall-2022

NAME: Masharab Fatima 11100

DAY/TIMING: Tuesday (11:45 to 14:45)
INSTRUCTOR NAME: Ma’am Uzma Atif
 THE POWER OF INTROVERTS

 Spending time alone might sound anti-social but for introverts it’s just a
different way of being social.
 But for years introverts denied their intuition and became entirely different
person instead of being what they always longed to be partly because they
needed to prove their selves that they could be bold and assertive too.
 Now this is what many introverts can do and its their lose for sure but also for
their colleagues, communities as well as the world’s loss because when it
comes to creativity and to leadership, we need introverts doing what they do
best not what others feel best.
 All of introverts are subjected to bias that is pretty deep and real in our
society. We all internalize it from a very early age without even having a
language of what we are doing.
 Now to see the biasness clearly, we need to understand what introverism is;
Extroverts really crave large amount of stimulation whereas introverts feel at
their most alive when they are in quitter, more low-key environments.
 But now here’s where the biasness comes in. Our most important institution,
our schools and our workplaces, they are designed mostly for extroverts
because extroverts need a lot of stimulation.
 And vast majority of teacher reports believing that the ideal student is an
extrovert as opposed to an introvert, even though introverts actually get better
grades and are more knowledgable according to research.
 Now infect some of our transformative leaders in history have been introverts.
For e.g; Gandhi, Eleanor Roosevelt, Rosa Parks. All these people are quiet
and soft spoken and even shy and they all took the spotlight.
 We all fall at different points, even of course along the introvert/extrovert
spectrum. Even Carl Jung the psychologist who first popularized these terms
said that there is no such thing as a pure introvert or extrovert. He said man
would be in a lunatic asylum if he existed at all.
 And some people fall smack in the middle of the introvert/extrovert spectrum
and we call them ambiverts and I often think they have the best of all worlds.
 But many of us do recognize ourselves as one type or another but culturally
we need a much better balance.
 If we look most of the world’s major religion, we will find seekers; Moses,
Jeses, Buddha, Muhammad. Seekers who are going off by themselves alone
to the wilderness, when they then have profound and revelations that they
bring back to the rest of community.
 Balance is important when it comes to creativity and to productivity because
when psychologists look at the lives of the most creative people what they find
are people who are very good at exchanging ideas and advancing ideas but
also have a serious streak of introverism in them and this is because solitude
is crucial ingredient often to creativity.
 So, the more freedom that we give introverts to be themselves, the more likely
that they are come up with their own unique solutions to different problems.
The key is to maximizing our talents is for us to put ourselves in the zone of
stimulation that is right for us.