The Power of Introverts

[Vincenzo Vinny G.]

I figure since a lot of us are in some ways introverts, this video might be interesting.





I see a lot of positive insights from this tedtalk.

But I think it depends on what you mean by introvert. And how you use your introverted personality.

A lot of introverts don't realize that their personality is not necessarily a problem if they just find the right way to manage it.

Einstein was considered to be autistic. But how he coped with his autism was not by wishing he wasn't autistic. It was going all-out into what autism made most comfortable to him, and leveraged it into the most profitable direction he could go.

Speaking to a lot of people here who have psychological challenges or problems that might be difficult to deal with- as long as they are healthy, try and find a way to work around them. Be creative.

This is obviously easier said than done. With all our various illnesses our responsibilities are very standardized: school, work, family, bills, chores. This standardization is often whats so burdensome. But they don't have to be.

To those that are struggling, don't give up.

I suffered from depression for quite a while. I took the pills and did the therapy and was somewhat annoyed that I was dealing with this monkey on my back for no fault of my own.

But somehow I leveraged it into the academic background I have today. Which isn't amazing. But it's opened up a huge door in my life.

So look for doors that might open in your lives, thanks to the weird challenges you deal with.

[Violet]

Einstein was considered to be autistic. But how he coped with his autism was not by wishing he wasn't autistic. It was going all-out into what autism made most comfortable to him, and leveraged it into the most profitable direction he could go.

Funny, I thought that he coped with shit by inserting his name into other people's theories without citations and being 'likable' and 'approachable'.

Don't give up? If for anything other than how some people would put out: why? Is there something particularly special about caring or living that nobody's managed to yet convey to me?

[Aegrus]

Einstein was considered to be autistic. But how he coped with his autism was not by wishing he wasn't autistic. It was going all-out into what autism made most comfortable to him, and leveraged it into the most profitable direction he could go.

Well, my psychiatrist thinks I'm autistic, and I don't mind all that much. (I know who I am, why bother getting worked up about what the label is?) I think that's conclusive proof that I'm the second coming of Einstein.

[Angrboda]

Einstein once remarked that in his later years, at Princeton, I believe, his own work had ceased to interest him, and his main pleasure was the opportunity it afforded him to walk home each day with Godel. That doesn't sound like an autistic to me.

[Rev. Rye]

I bought Susan Cain's book "Quiet" earlier in the year, and I recommended it to a teacher who tried to get me to be more extroverted. She did not take it.

[Rayaan]