Society places a great deal of value on its loud, aggressive extroverts, those "larger than life" folks with dazzling smiles, and high energy persona's that scream LOOK AT ME!! Regardless of their productivity levels, they frequently get promoted at work over their more reserved coworkers, and promoted in the media as the standard by which everyone else should aspire to. However-
-what does society do with the quiet introverts, those 20-30% who would rather spend Saturday nights at home with a book, chessboard, listening to music, or writing in a journal rather than going to a loud party? Today quiet introversion is frequently looked upon as a borderline personality disorder. These people are planners, thinkers, and frequently hard workers. "Substance over image" is their motto, which brings up an interesting question:
How has society gone from valuing Personality over Character without realizing that we have sacrificed something valuable along the way?
- Joined
- 16 Feb 08
- Moves
- 121969
361d
@mchill saidI think you are conflating too many aspects here. For examples:
Society places a great deal of value on its loud, aggressive extroverts, those "larger than life" folks with dazzling smiles, and high energy persona's that scream LOOK AT ME!! Regardless of their productivity levels, they frequently get promoted at work over their more reserved coworkers, and promoted in the media as the standard by which everyone else should aspire to. Howev ...[text shortened]... rsonality over Character without realizing that we have sacrificed something valuable along the way?
- society and workplace
- personality and character
- personal appearance and extroversion/introversion
- energy with ditto
- public life with private life
- societal pressure with personal responsibility
- prejudice in the workplace with societal and social media
- weekend evening preferences with (incorrect) ratio of introverts to extroverts
- introversion/extroversion with personal values
- an inclination for the arts with all of the above.
So I want to answer your final question but am unable to as the premise, the way you have presented it, seems contrived.
@mchill saidWell said!
Society places a great deal of value on its loud, aggressive extroverts, those "larger than life" folks with dazzling smiles, and high energy persona's that scream LOOK AT ME!! Regardless of their productivity levels, they frequently get promoted at work over their more reserved coworkers, and promoted in the media as the standard by which everyone else should aspire to. Howev ...[text shortened]... rsonality over Character without realizing that we have sacrificed something valuable along the way?
You have no reason to answer to anyone on what you believe.
-VR
361d
@mchill saidSHY INTROVERTS SHOULD BE LINED UP AND SHOT !! USELESS DROSS THEY BE !!
Society places a great deal of value on its loud, aggressive extroverts, those "larger than life" folks with dazzling smiles, and high energy persona's that scream LOOK AT ME!! Regardless of their productivity levels, they frequently get promoted at work over their more reserved coworkers, and promoted in the media as the standard by which everyone else should aspire to. Howev ...[text shortened]... rsonality over Character without realizing that we have sacrificed something valuable along the way?
@very-rusty saidHe put his thoughts in a public forum and asked people to comment.
Well said!
You have no reason to answer to anyone on what you believe.
-VR
@divegeester saidThis is what happens when you have such a boring life that you must sit around nitpicking other people that you simply refuse to believe have more exciting lives than you.
I think you are conflating too many aspects here. For examples:
- society and workplace
- personality and character
- personal appearance and extroversion/introversion
- energy with ditto
- public life with private life
- societal pressure with personal responsibility
- prejudice in the workplace with societal and social media
- weekend evening preferences ...[text shortened]... your final question but am unable to as the premise, the way you have presented it, seems contrived.
Just go enjoy your own life, however plain it might be, without dumping on everyone else, calling them liars (contrived, anyone?), just for having a life you find difficult to imagine. This is one of your worst traits here that you let out of the box far too often.
@mchill saidI blame Orange Julius. People are often very shallow, especially if they see there's something in it for them.
Society places a great deal of value on its loud, aggressive extroverts, those "larger than life" folks with dazzling smiles, and high energy persona's that scream LOOK AT ME!! Regardless of their productivity levels, they frequently get promoted at work over their more reserved coworkers, and promoted in the media as the standard by which everyone else should aspire to. Howev ...[text shortened]... rsonality over Character without realizing that we have sacrificed something valuable along the way?
That may not even be the case, it's all about their perception, flawed as it may be.
@suzianne saidI agree with you suzianne, I don't know if I told you this before in the public forum, but you are one of the few people I'd like to meet up with in person. I believe my better half and you would hit it off right away.
I blame Orange Julius. People are often very shallow, especially if they see there's something in it for them.
That may not even be the case, it's all about their perception, flawed as it may be.
-VR
- Joined
- 16 Feb 08
- Moves
- 121969
@suzianne saidSince you mention it…
This is what happens when you have such a boring life that you must sit around nitpicking other people that you simply refuse to believe have more exciting lives than you.
Just go enjoy your own life, however plain it might be, without dumping on everyone else, calling them liars (contrived, anyone?), just for having a life you find difficult to imagine. This is one of your worst traits here that you let out of the box far too often.
My life is great. I work as a specialist in the MedTech industry serving and bettering the needs of human kind through cutting edge innovations. I’m 30+ year happily married with a wonderful extended family, I live on a third of an acre plot on the edge of national park enjoying good physical and mental health and I look forward to the future with optimism.
You on the other hand are a US postal office worker pretending to live a charismatic life of angelic visitations and higher level education which you will never attain while wasting your valuable study time trolling me with your paranoid delusions on an inconsequential chess website relying on a coalition of cretins to thumb up your posts on a forum board populated largely by a partisan group of small-minded unprincipled weasels who will say anything to garner populist fandom.
In short; LOL.
@divegeester saidSometimes your mental health is of concern! 🙂
Since you mention it…
My life is great. I work as a specialist in the MedTech industry serving and bettering the needs of human kind through cutting edge innovations. I’m 30+ year happily married with a wonderful extended family, I live on a third of an acre plot on the edge of national park enjoying good physical and mental health and I look forward to the future with ...[text shortened]... mall-minded unprincipled weasels who will say anything to garner populist fandom.
In short; LOL.
-VR
@mchill saidYours. Many still live in backward societies.
Society places a great deal of value on its loud, aggressive extroverts, those "larger than life" folks with dazzling smiles, and high energy persona's that scream LOOK AT ME!! Regardless of their productivity levels, they frequently get promoted at work over their more reserved coworkers, and promoted in the media as the standard by which everyone else should aspire to. Howev ...[text shortened]... rsonality over Character without realizing that we have sacrificed something valuable along the way?