Introversion, Gut Feelings, And Trust

So what is stealing people’s happiness and the ability to reach their full potential? The answer is fear. Due to doubts, fears, and temptations people are holding back from all they can be. As a result, many people are not reaching this achievement of a greater life. Abraham Maslow stated, “Most people remain unaware of the nature, variety and extent of what lies within” (Young, “What is Self-actualization?”). This is a common obstacle among people today, yet there is a solution. It will take many processes and life changes to become a self-actualizing individual, but I believe that people, including myself are capable of achieving this gratification. Just like Zig Ziglar affirmed, “Man was designed for accomplishment, engineered for success, and endowed with the seeds of greatness” (Ziglar 4). In the following

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One can be happy because they won the lottery, or one can be happy simply because someone smiled at them. Happiness is not hard to acquire, but establishing a consistent and enduring happiness in one’s life is almost impossible if one does not have a strong mental foundation built by a sense of self-fulfillment and independence. Modern society openly ridicules any form of self-content. It is filled with ever-changing advertisements for new ways to become happy quickly. Modern society has essentially spread a narcotic-like addiction to fads; overloading our brain with spikes of serotonin then leaving us in a state of withdrawal. In this society, one is no longer allowed to simply achieve set goals and live the rest of their life in peace; they must evolve, or they will be left behind. Society power and influence is growing at such a rapid rate that there will be a point where no human

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“Introverts can often be very deep and very thoughtful. Even if they are quiet, they can have a lot to contribute,” explained Alcee. “In this day and age where we are all on our phones, back and forth, introverts know how to look inwards and connect. That’s something we are sort of losing as a culture and introverts do that instinctively. For millennials and this generation, that’s an important virtue and skill.”

The concept of self-schema is simply how we, as individuals, view ourselves now or figuring out who we want to be in the future. In order for us to define ourselves we compare and contrast what we see in others; we look for similar qualities or characteristics within friends and peers that could lead us to developing how we perceive oneself. We define ourselves through not only our own cultures and/or religion but simply through our successes and failures, social identity (groups), the opinions we form of ourselves and others and also our judgements on others surrounding us. Within social settings, we quickly evaluate and/or notice those that are most similar

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Like me, maybe you didn't think that there was more than one category. As Scott Barry Kaufman has written, pop culture has defined introversion in quite a few confusing ways.

By believing that introverts are flawed and need to be fixed, extroverts endeavor to “help” and offer advice. The advice can cause introverts to feel ashamed that they are not normal. This has continued since the rise of industry, because once people tried to be desired by other people based on their first impression, it became cemented in society. Once the "Extrovert Ideal" (Cain 23) started, it stayed. Since being cemented into society, it has caused too much pain, suffering, and all around confusion. “there seems to be general agreement that there is a considerable amount of stress generated by solitude. Indeed, not only the experimental literature but also anecdotal reports indicate that isolation is adverse in its effects” (Suedfeld 5). The pain of isolation for a lifetime is not normal for social animals such as humans. This pain has caused confusion for introverts because extroverts can and do fail to understand that introverts are different. Extroverts become confused because they believe that extroverts are normal and the quiet introvert needs their “help” to be

Targeting Extroversion and Introversion in the Workplace The purpose of this research was to explore the effect that the environment, specifically workplace culture can have on the expression of the personality trait of extraversion. Participants were employees at a major Canadian department store which has a workplace culture directed toward active engagement with customers and which appears to reward outgoing behaviors in the workforce. Participants completed the extraversion section of the Big Five Factor Markers Questionnaire (Goldberg, 1990) in both the workplace environment as well as in their home. Also, participants were asked to respond to several open-ended questions regarding their perceived behavior.

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Bartholomew & Horowitz (1991) also defined the different attachment styles, secure, preoccupied, fearful, and dismissive, according to dependence and avoidance. The researchers defined avoidance as the degree to which people avoid close contact with others as a result of their expectation of aversive consequences; and dependence is defined on a spectrum where those low in dependence represents the establishment of positive self-regard internally without the need for validation from others and those high in dependence are only able to internalize positive self-regard when they receive constant external validation.

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