Sentences with phrase «as introverted as»

All this to let you know this particular job isn't entirely as introverted as you may think.

Yeah, I'm about as introverted as you can be.

Especially if you're as introverted as I am.

Not exact matches

As an introvert, at the time I was more focused on building my writing portfolio, and less interested in coaching executives on their communication strategies.

But don't underestimate the benefits an introvert brings to a leadership team: That shy, quiet type you dismissed as anti-social could be the next Marissa Mayer, Mark Zuckerberg or Bill Gates.

Though she describes herself as introverted, she trained to speak in public and now does, consistently, and performed well enough in her TED talk to make it one of the most watched.

Maintaining the old vocabulary forces her to contort her language, describing herself as an «impossibly oxymoronic creature: the Public Introvert.»

The good news is that being introverted doesn't have to be an obstacle to networking so long as you do it the right way.

The old model calls people with equal skills «ambiverts,» but can't distinguish between people who can't function as either so - called introverts or so - called extroverts and people who can function equally well as both.

Which gets right to the heart of why you should take the next online personality quiz you come across with a grain of salt (and also why you should avoid pigeonholing others as «introverted» or «neurotic»).

It found that social - support providers — those who ask co-workers to lunch, arrange activities in the office and help pick up some of the slack — are 10 times as likely to be engaged at work than introverts and 40 percent more likely to land a promotion.

One is based on the Myers - Briggs Type Indicator, which measures whether you consider yourself an introvert or extrovert as well as other ways you interact with the world.

The researchers found that introverts gave lower evaluations and smaller peer bonuses to the extroverted target team member, even though their performance was the same as their more introverted team member.

As a mathematician at heart with an introverted personality, she needs solitude and complete silence to concentrate on the details and complexities of her work which includes finding real estate that matches to her customer's needs and keeping the finances up to date for my many ventures.

For an introvert, that puts you on the same level as an extrovert on a day when he or she is not that chatty.

As an introvert myself, I know there's a tendency to think the work you produce by yourself is better than what a group of people produce.

Dr. Laurie Helgoe cites several studies in which researchers compared the two and found that introverts generally have higher levels of electrical activity in the cerebral cortex, which may explain why they limit external stimulation so as to maintain an appropriate level of arousal.

And studies measuring cerebral blood flow discovered introvert brain activation is greater in the frontal cortex, where things that necessitate focus and attention happen, such as remembering, planning, decision making, and problem solving.

As introverts, we need to get over the view that teams are inefficient.

Just type «introvert» into Google and the first result you'll get is from Oxford Dictionaries that define introverts as «a shy, reticent person.»

As writer, cartoonist and musician Elizabeth Wagele put it perfectly: «We introverts make good friends for ourselves.»

Here, sales expert Grant Cardone says introverts can be just as good.

As an introvert, I sometimes withhold information or think people can read my mind.

Other companies now use OkCupid's vast trove of social data, and Yagan, a self - professed introvert who is married to his high school sweetheart, stands as the foremost authority in a fast - growing $ 2 billion industry.

One major advantage I have as an entrepreneur who's an introvert is the ability to listen patiently to others.

Not only are they useful advice if you're a little more low - key socially than the average executive, but they also serve as a powerful reminder of the power of the introverted approach to leadership.

Those who know Frind describe him as introverted, smart, and a little awkward.

This image of Perdue as a timid introvert is strikingly at odds with his legacy as a marketing tycoon who transformed a family - owned business into an empire.

As an introvert, exposing myself was the most difficult part.

And because I'm an introvert, I can be perceived as aloof.

«A lot of the things we do in the sprint are meant to help people who are introverted — people who aren't as comfortable or as capable of pitching their ideas — to be on a level playing field with the founder or with anyone on the team,» says Knapp.

(Coming off as remote or unapproachable is a common problem for introverts.)

Grant, of the Wharton School, says businesses must stop assuming that if someone is an introvert, he or she is «therefore probably not likely to succeed as a leader.»

Introverts make up almost 50 % of the workforce, and while extroverts are considered the movers and shakers, introverts are just as valuable for getting the job done, possessing key strengths such as creativity, focus, and grit that are often overlooked because they're less vocal oIntroverts make up almost 50 % of the workforce, and while extroverts are considered the movers and shakers, introverts are just as valuable for getting the job done, possessing key strengths such as creativity, focus, and grit that are often overlooked because they're less vocal ointroverts are just as valuable for getting the job done, possessing key strengths such as creativity, focus, and grit that are often overlooked because they're less vocal or visible.

Introverts often prefer to get their own ideas across in writing, and the written word can be a means of connection as well.

Some introverts claim to have conquered their social hesitation by joining groups that promote the podium as the conduit to success.

The best way to make a great first impression in a job interview — and to make a great impression throughout the interview — is to play to your strengths as an introvert.

Becoming the best version of yourself possible, as an introverted Gen. McChrystal learned, is far more important to your leadership success than perpetuating old illusions.

Your loud, swaggering types are as comfortable slipping into the role of boss — or elbowing their way into it — as introverts are fine with stepping aside.

On the other hand, Susan Cain describes the view of the introvert as «a second - class personality trait, somewhere between a disappointment and a pathology.»

My unsolved conundrum, as an introvert entrepreneur, is how to honor my own authenticity and originality without being comfortable with the expressive norms of an extroverted society.

Sometimes I enjoyed it, but as an introvert, mostly I found it exhausting.

I know people who would be viewed as extroverts at a party they host, but when they are guests at a party where they know no one, they appear to be introverts.

Susan Cain would peg me right away as an introvert.

The research revealed that not only do people rate wooded mountain areas as more calm and peaceful and open ones — such as the beach or a flat city — as more sociable and stimulating, but it also found that in actual fact more introverts really do live in mountainous areas and extroverts in flat, open ones.

The blanket confidence of extroverts generally casts them as warm and approachable, while introverts seem to get lumped in with social misfits, and are thought to be closed and detached.

(As a friend wryly observed, no group of introverts ever got together and said, «You know what would be helpful?

The concept was probably started by people who like to analyze the introverted personality type, but it makes about as much sense as trying to turn a Toyota Corolla into a Chevy Corvette.

As a lifelong introvert, I'll be the first to admit it would be helpful to be able to change into something else.

There is no such thing as an extroverted introvert.