a writer on the lesser side of effective time management--meaning, i spend far too much time writing without lucrative return. a penny in, a penny out, opportunity costs wasted.
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i'm 25, still living at home although i am a recent college graduate. because i'm just that superfly.
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i hate sitcoms, and i still watch cartoons. at least they never tell you when to laugh--they assume you'll know.
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AIM: xanthoughfile
[warn me of who you are]
- Saw this on FB so sharing here instead of my loser FB friends.
- Click for full artcle or read some excerpts below.
- My scale of Introvert RanGt to Extrovert RanGt depends on my caffeine intake.
- “From Gandhi to Joe DiMaggio to Mother Teresa to Bill Gates, introverts have done a lot of good work in the world.”
- I like these people
- “We moved from what cultural historians call a culture of character to a culture of personality. During the culture of character, what was important was the good deeds that you performed when nobody was looking. Abraham Lincoln is the embodiment of the culture of character, and people celebrated him back then for being a man who did not offend by superiority. But at the turn of the century, when we moved into this culture of personality, suddenly what was admired was to be magnetic and charismatic.
- On how today’s workplaces are designed for extroverts
“Introverts are much less often groomed for leadership positions, even though there’s really fascinating research out recently from Adam Grant at [The Wharton School of business at the University of Pennsylvania] finding that introverted leaders often deliver better outcomes when their employees are more proactive. They’re more likely to let those employees run with their ideas, whereas an extroverted leader might, almost unwittingly, be more dominant and be putting their own stamp on things, and so those good ideas never come to the fore.”
- On the value of working alone
“None of this is to say that it would be a good thing to get rid of teamwork and get rid of group work altogether. It’s more just to say that we’re at a point in our culture, and in our workplace culture, where we’ve gotten too lopsided. We tend to believe that all creativity and all productivity comes from the group, when in fact, there really is a benefit to solitude and to being able to go off and focus and put your head down.”
- Remember to take the Myspace-esque quiz!
I answered an overly-emphatic “True” to every question on the list. Do I win a one-way ticket to an uninhabited island? (Because that would be AWESOME.)