Sunday, March 16, 2014

In Which Introversion is Discussed

As many of you may have realized, I'm quite the introvert. This isn't news to anyone, or at least it shouldn't be. Now I'm not an expert on the subject, but I've come to notice a few ways that it manifests itself in me/my actions.

The most obvious to me is my productivity level. When I'm by myself I have a way higher potential to get stuff done. It doesn't really matter wha it is either, anything from cleaning to art-ing to blogging and anything in between or beyond. While it's great for me and super useful for self motivation, I'm the only one who notices the productivity spike. As such, I either have to do things that are easily noticeable or just straight up tell people to convince them that this improved productivity thing is real. It's totally a thing! Just trust me on this.

Something else that's come up is my rather pronounced inability maintain contact with people. You know how some people are nigh constantly texting/IMing/Facebooking/some-sort-of-social-media-ing and nonstop social contact? Granted those tend to be kind of extreme cases, but I'm pretty much the opposite.  I rarely do any of that, an if I do it's generally in response to somepony else initiating contact.  Pretty sure that it's 'cause of my introversion, but it could be related to other aspects of the self of me. Either way, I'm trying to work on that aspect and not hide myself away from the world, as advised by a good friend of mine. 

A third thing something something introversion, I tend to not pay attention to world/local news. I'm not too sad about that though, there's lots of crazy things going on in the world that I'm pretty okay with not paying attention to. So yeah, the news is avoided by me for possibly more than just introversion's sake.

Also: I tend to process a lot of thoughts internally to completion, so I'm not very good at random conversation. At least not with people I see all the time. I'm surprising great at random conversations with people I've never met before.  I blame working in customer service roles, lots of conversing with random people in those jobs.

Unrelated, I have a tendency to use the word "blame" in place of "attribute" or something similar that I'm currently not remembering. They basically mean the same thing but "blame" has a much more negative connotation than other alternatives. I still do it regardless, I find it entertaining to play with words like that.

Okay, I can't remember if I was going to write anything else about my introversion, so I'm just gonna end this now.

Oh, and I hereby pledge to post something at least once a week for the next...2 months? Yeah, that's enough time to try and get in the habit of posting.  Carol, hold me to it.

Cheers
~Cam