Act Like an Extrovert & Get More Done

Introverts are awesome.

Just ask me, I am one. Susan Cain agrees. She’s one too.

As awesome as we are, there are times that our introversion gets in the way. When we need to introduce ourselves to strangers. When someone wants to make small talk with us in an elevator. When we need to start a conversation, or worse yet figure out how to gracefully end one.

Maybe someday the world will come around, and we’ll all be allowed to work from wherever our hearts desire (a cabin nestled alongside a mountain stream in a remote section of the Rockies, just saying), but until then most of us work in organizations and buildings that have other people in them.

Maybe you have one of those introvert dream jobs, like writer or college professor, where you don’t have to interact with other human beings at all. Even still, there are occasions in your life when other people are a necessity. I don’t think Starbucks delivers (yet), although I’m sure Amazon is working on it.

Maybe the drones will actually the make the coffee in mid-flight, so that it arrives piping hot.

There are times when acting like an extrovert can help us be more effective. I’m not suggesting that’s the way it should be. In a perfect world, we could all be our fully authentic selves and…