> Society rewards extroverts. They get the job, the money, the girl (or boy), and the front page.
I'm not entirely sure this is true. A lot of the top inventors, industrialists, writers, and artists in any generation are introverts.
What less people realize is that the most accomplished statesmen and politicians are often introverts too.
Augustus Cesar led the height of the Roman Empire, Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, Abraham Lincoln crushed the Confederacy and led to modern strong-Federal America, etc, etc. All introverts.
Anecdotally, it seems like it's easier for an introvert to learn how deal well with people than it is for an extrovert to learn to enjoy the solitude and meditative periods necessary for serious hardcore expansion.
It's probably easier to become moderately popular and get external trappings of success as an extrovert. But if I was trying to massively change the course of history, I'd want the bulk of my top personnel in leadership positions to be introverts.
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> Society rewards extroverts. They get the job, the money, the girl (or boy), and the front page.
I'm not entirely sure this is true. A lot of the top inventors, industrialists, writers, and artists in any generation are introverts.
What less people realize is that the most accomplished statesmen and politicians are often introverts too.
Augustus Cesar led the height of the Roman Empire, Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, Abraham Lincoln crushed the Confederacy and led to modern strong-Federal America, etc, etc. All introverts.
Anecdotally, it seems like it's easier for an introvert to learn how deal well with people than it is for an extrovert to learn to enjoy the solitude and meditative periods necessary for serious hardcore expansion.
It's probably easier to become moderately popular and get external trappings of success as an extrovert. But if I was trying to massively change the course of history, I'd want the bulk of my top personnel in leadership positions to be introverts.